Edgar Mitchell (right) poses with Stuart Roosa (left) and Alan Shepard (center)

Edgar D. Mitchell, Sc.D. (born September 17, 1930) was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. He did this with Alan Shepard as part of the Apollo 14 mission on February 9, 1971. The mission was NASA's third manned Moon landing. Apollo 14 crew: Roosa, Shepard, Mitchell. ... Apollo 14 crew: Roosa, Shepard, Mitchell. ... Stuart Roosa (left) poses with Alan Shepard (middle) and Edgar Mitchell (right) Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 - December 12, 1994) was a NASA astronaut, who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Bulk composition of the moons mantle and crust estimated, weight percent Oxygen 42. ... Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. ... Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the third mission to land on the moon. ... February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Mitchell obtained a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He also has two Bachelor of Science degrees, one from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and one from Carnegie Mellon University. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the New Mexico State University, the University of Akron, Carnegie Mellon University and Embry-Riddle University. He began training at NASA in 1966 and served in the US Navy between 1953 and 1972. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, mathematics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... New Mexico State University, or NMSU, is a land-grant university that has its main campus in Las Cruces, New Mexico. ... The University of Akron is an institution of higher learning located in Akron, Ohio. ... Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is an independent, non-sectarian, non-profit, coeducational university with a history dating back to the early days of aviation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ...

Mitchell's interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena. While on the Moon he conducted unauthorized ESP experiments. In early 1973, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The aim of the nonprofit Institute is to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has ignored, including psychic events. As well as writing academic journals, Mitchell has written two books; Psychic Exploration (ISBN 0399113428) and The Way of the Explorer (ISBN 157270019X). He is currently the Advisory Board Chairman of the Institute for Cooperation in Space, co-founded by Dr. Carol Rosin. Extra-sensory perception, or ESP, is the name given to any ability to acquire information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well-known to science (balance, proprioception, etc). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar). ... Founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the Institute of Noetic Sciences explores the frontiers of consciousness through rigorous scientific research, bridges science and spirit, and seeks to support a fundamental shift in human consciousness to create a world grounded in freedom, wisdom and love. ... The Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS) is a 501-C-3 tax-exempt, non-profit foundation whose mission is to educate decision makers and the grassroots about why space weapons must be banned. ... Dr. Carol Rosin is an award-winning educator, author, leading aerospace executive and space and missile defense consultant. ...

Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that "he is 90 per cent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets" [1] and that UFOs have been the "subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn't come out." [2] UFO redirects here. ... Disinformation, in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to ones position or course of action. ...

Mitchell says that a teenage remote healer who lives in Vancouver, B.C. and uses the pseudonym Adam Dreamhealer, helped heal him of kidney cancer at a distance. Mitchell said that while he never had a biopsy (the definitive test for cancer), "I had a sonogram and MRI that was consistent with renal carcinoma." Adam worked on Mitchell from December of 2003 until June of 2004, when the "irregularity was gone and we haven't seen it since." (Neimark 2006:43). When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ... A biopsy (in Greek: bios = life and opsy = look/appearance) is a medical test involving the removal of cells or tissues for examination. ... In medicine, carcinoma is any cancer that arises from epithelial cells. ...

Mitchell was portrayed by Gary Cole in the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. Gary Cole as Bob Russell. ... From the Earth to the Moon was a twelve-part HBO television miniseries (1998) co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick detailing the landmark Apollo expeditions to the Moon during the 1960s and early 1970s. ...

He is also in the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and brought with him to the moon one of the orders badges, which now rests in the Kappa Sigma museum.

References

• Jill Neimark (2006). "The Big Bird, the Big Lie, God, and Science", Skeptical Inquirer, vol 30, #2, March/April 2006.

Jill Neimark is an American writer. ... The Skeptical Inquirer is a magazine of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) dedicated to debunking pseudoscience. ...

External links

• Institute of Noetic Sciences
• Edgar Mitchell's home page
• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal: Apollo 14
• Institute for Cooperation in Space
• Edgar Mitchell MP3 audio - from Shift in Action, sponsored by Institute of Noetic Sciences
• Astronautix

Articles featuring Edgar Mitchell discussing extraterrestrial life: Founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the Institute of Noetic Sciences explores the frontiers of consciousness through rigorous scientific research, bridges science and spirit, and seeks to support a fundamental shift in human consciousness to create a world grounded in freedom, wisdom and love. ...

• Astronaut: "We've had visitors"
• Mitchell: "Release all information on UFOs & ETs"