The Apollo 14 mission was NASA's third manned lunar landing.  This historic journey ended safely nine days later on February 9, 1971. It was an audacious time in the history of mankind.

As Edgar Mitchell hurtled earthward through the abyss between the two worlds, he became engulfed by a profound sensation "a sense of universal connectedness."  The experience  was so overwhelming Mitchell knew his life would never be the same.
 
Dr. Mitchell has received many awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the USN Distinguished Medal and three NASA Group Achievement Awards.  He was inducted to the Space Hall of Fame in 1979 and the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1998.  He was a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. After retiring from the Navy in 1972, Dr. Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences to sponsor research into the nature of consciousness as it relates to cosmology and causality.  
 
In 1984, he co-founded the Association of Space Explorers, an international organization of those who have experienced space travel. He is the author of Psychic Exploration and The Way of the Explorer, as well as dozens of articles in both professional and popular periodicals. He has devoted the last 35 years to studying human consciousness and psychic and paranormal phenomena in the search for a common ground between science and spirit.

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