Everything about Edgar Mitchell totally explained
Edgar Dean Mitchell (born
September 17,
1930) is an
American pilot and
astronaut. As the
lunar module pilot of
Apollo 14, he spent nine hours of
February 9 1971 moonwalking on the
Fra Mauro formation; he was the sixth man to walk on the
Moon.
Biography
Mitchell was born in
Hereford, Texas. He was active in the
Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He obtained a
Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management from
Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1952. Apollo 14 was his only spaceflight. Ed Mitchell remained with NASA until he retired from the Navy in 1972.
Mitchell is a member of the
Kappa Sigma fraternity, and carried one of the order's badges to the moon; it's now kept at his home chapter of Kappa Sigma at Carnegie Mellon University.
Ed Mitchell was awarded honorary doctorates from the
New Mexico State University, the
University of Akron,
Carnegie Mellon University and
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Mitchell was portrayed by
Gary Cole in the 1998 miniseries
From the Earth to the Moon.
Other interests
Mitchell's interests include consciousness and
paranormal phenomena. During the Apollo 14 flight he conducted private
ESP experiments with his friends on Earth.
In early
1973, he founded the nonprofit
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has ignored, including
consciousness research and
psychic events.
As well as academic papers,, Mitchell has written two books:
Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science (ISBN 0-399-11342-8) and
The Way of the Explorer (ISBN 1-57270-019-X). In
The Way of the Explorer, Mitchell proposed a dyadic model of reality.
He is currently the Advisory Board Chairman of the
Institute for Cooperation in Space, co-founded by Dr.
Carol Rosin.
Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that he's "90 per cent sure that many of the thousands of
unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets" and that UFOs have been the "subject of
disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn't come out." In 2004 he told the
St. Petersburg Times that a "cabal of insiders" inside the US Government were studying recovered alien bodies, and that this group had stopped briefing US Presidents after
John F. Kennedy. He has said, that "We all know that UFOs are real, now the question is, where they come from."
Mitchell says that a teenage remote
healer who lives in
Vancouver and uses the pseudonym
Adam Dreamhealer, helped heal him of kidney
cancer at a distance. Mitchell said that while he never had a
biopsy (the definitive test for cancer), "I had a sonogram and MRI that was consistent with renal
carcinoma." Adam worked (distantly) on Mitchell from December of 2003 until June of 2004, when the "irregularity was gone and we haven't seen it since."
Today, Edgar Mitchell is also distinguished member of
INREES.
Mitchell is one of the astronauts featured in the documentary
In the Shadow of the Moon.
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