00:00On the lunar surface you have the ability to gather samples that can tell us so much about the origins of our solar system and the samples returned gave us that information. That was what Apollo 14 did that was so trailblazing.
00:19Looks good here, flies go to green.
00:26Well we better back off here and think about this one Houston.
00:51Roger.
00:53They continue to believe that this mission might never get started and mission control was pretty convinced it wouldn't either.
01:00First attempt, dock, couldn't get a hard dock. Second attempt, third attempt, fourth attempt, fifth and a sixth attempt. Two hours.
01:11But it's that spirit in mission control, in the crew, the faith and the confidence in their training and they're able to work together as a team to really to get that mission going.
01:21I believe I got a hard dock here.
01:23Roger Al, that's great.
01:25Super job, Stu.
01:27Alright, this is really a wild place up here.
01:33In the aftermath of Apollo 13, nothing was taken for granted. It took a lot of work back home to really reprogram that software to really understand what had happened there.
01:48We're on the surface.
01:50Okay, we made a good landing.
01:51That was a beautiful one.
01:52We landed the slope, but other than that we're in great shape right on the landing site.
01:53Yep.
01:54Looks like you're about on the bottom of the steps and on the surface.
01:55Sad for it, old man.
01:56That was on the surface, and it's been a long way, but we're here.
02:17Apollo 14 was an incredibly ambitious scientific mission.
02:34One of the things they had with them that was incredibly important was something called the MET or the rickshaw.
02:39Basically a cart.
02:40A cart intended to carry both those scientific experiments, those payloads, but also to return those lunar samples.
02:47And so that allowed that crew to travel further from the lander than any crew had previously.
02:53We're really going on a pretty steep slope here. We got a ways to go yet.
03:01Like any good navigator, the astronauts brought with them the maps that they needed.
03:06But there was a problem with these maps. These maps had been shot from the air.
03:10And on the ground, that lunar landscape looked quite a bit different.
03:14I think like being up to your arm, it's the lunar dust.
03:18They found themselves in valleys that were deeper than they thought.
03:22They found themselves working up hills that were higher. This was an exploration at its finest.
03:27Well, I'm going to try a little sand trap shot here.
03:32It looked like a slice to be out.
03:34There we go. And one more. Miles and miles and miles.
03:39The samples returned from Apollo 14 were incredibly important.
03:54They told us so much about the formation of the solar system.
03:58So much about the material that makes up the moon.
04:01Okay, I shall do a loop. Okay, make it smooth. And around we go.
04:06Show us all style.
04:08The return trip to Earth was a time to rest, a time to reflect, but also a time to continue science.
04:15A major portion of that journey home was conducting microgravity science.
04:20Something that today we do on the International Space Station every day.
04:24That was really a new way to think about what would the value of space be.
04:33Apollo 14 achieved all the science that it had hoped to achieve.
04:37And it pressed the boundaries of space exploration in ways that future crews would build upon.
04:43And as we prepare to go back to the moon, we definitely follow in the footsteps of these brave crews that went before us.
04:49And build upon the scientific information that they returned.
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