Stuart Allen "
Stu"
Roosa (August 16, 1933 – December 12, 1994), (
Col,
USAF), was an
American aeronautical engineer,
United States Air Force pilot,
test pilot, and
NASA astronaut, who was the
Command Module Pilot for the
Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971 and was the third mission to land astronauts (
Alan Shepard and
Edgar Mitchell) on the
Moon. While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the Command Module
Kitty Hawk. He was one of only 24 people to travel to the Moon.