Edgar Mitchell, Sixth Man To Walk On Moon, Dies In Florida

The sixth man who walked on the moon, whose fascination with telepathy and aliens nearly got him removed from his Apollo mission, has died at 85 years old. Edgar Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon. Mitchell and Shepard spent a total of 33 hours on the moon, collecting rocks and taking measurements, as CNN reported.

Apollo 14 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on January 31, 1971.

The astronaut was born in Hereford, Texas in 1930.

Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell with the Apollo 14 emblem in November of 1970.

Mitchell wrote about his life-changing experiences in his 1996 book, The Way Of The Explorer, which delved into his investigations of the nature of reality.

Fascinated and frustrated by the relationship between religion and science, he was very public about seeking links between the known and unknown. The camera had been bolted to the l lunar module and would have been left on the moon if Mitchell hadn’t removed it. The newspaper claimed Mitchell said UFOs had helped prevent nuclear war.

He received a bachelor’s degree in aeronautics in 1961 from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, then a doctorate in science in 1964 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 2011, Mitchell was sued by the government after he attempted to sell his Apollo 14 camera at acution.

He said he had conducted ESP experiments on the mission.

In previous interview speaking about his journey home to Earth, Mr Mitchell said: “What I experienced during that three-day trip home was nothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal connectedness”. Mitchell later settled the lawsuit by donating it to the National Air and Space Museum.

“Believing as I do that the universe is an intelligent system, and understanding the absurd and tragic fate that may await us, I have wondered if we are prepared for our own survival, if our own collective consciousness is yet highly enough evolved”.