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Stuart A. Roosa American astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, 1970

Stuart A. Roosa

American astronaut
Also known as: Stuart Allen Roosa
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Stuart A. Roosa (born August 16, 1933, Durango, Colorado, U.S.—died December 12, 1994, Falls Church, Virginia.) was an American astronaut. Roosa participated in the Apollo 14 mission (January 31–February 9, 1971), in which the uplands region of the Moon, 15 miles (24 km) north of the Fra Mauro crater, was explored. While he orbited overhead in the Command Module, Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. and Edgar D. Mitchell landed on the Moon. While in orbit...

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