US astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who was the 6th Man to Walk on the Moon Dies

 

US Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who was the 6th Man to Walk on the Moon, has died aged 85

US Astronaut Edgar Mitchell on the Moon, 5 February 1971

 

He passed away at a hospice in West Palm Beach, Florida,USA

As part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, US Astronaut Edgar Mitchell spent more than nine hours on the Moon's surface.

 

 

The Apollo 14 crew: Edgar Mitchell (left) with Alan Shepard (centre) and Stuart Roosa

US Astronaut Edgar Mitchell said he had had an "epiphany" in space and later devoted his life to studying the mind and unexplained phenomena. He said he believed that aliens had visited Earth.

Edgar Mitchell left the US space agency Nasa in 1972 and set up the Institute of Noetic Sciences which aimed to support "individual and collective transformation through consciousness research".