Stuart Roosa

Stuart Roosa
Roosa in 1971
Born	Stuart Allen Roosa (1933-08-16)August 16, 1933 Durango, Colorado, U.S.
Died	December 12, 1994(1994-12-12) (aged 61) Falls Church, Virginia, U.S.
Resting place	Arlington National Cemetery
Education	Oklahoma State University, Stillwater University of Arizona University of Colorado, Boulder (BS)
Awards	NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank	Colonel, USAF
Time in space	9d 0h 1m
Selection	NASA Group 5 (1966)
Missions	Apollo 14
Mission insignia
Retirement	February 1, 1976
Signature

Stuart Allen Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994) was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971, and was the third mission to land astronauts (Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell) on the Moon. While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the Command Module Kitty Hawk. He was one of 24 men to travel to the Moon, which he orbited 34 times.^[1]