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Section Two: Astronaut Memorabilia Lot 013: Apollo 14 Flown Beta Patch from the collection of Edgar Mitchell
Apollo 14 successfully completed the third manned lunar landing in 1971. Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell lived on the Moon for 33 hours and 30 minutes (9 hours and 25 minutes of which were outside the Lunar Module Antares) while Stuart Roosa orbited the Moon inside the Command Module Kitty Hawk.
Stowed aboard Kitty Hawk among the Lunar Module Pilot's personal items was this Apollo 14 mission insiginia. After the mission, Edgar Mitchell certified this patch as flown to the Moon in his handwriting on the Beta® cloth material of the patch. The same material was used as the outer layer of his spacesuit.
