Moon Walker #6: Edgar Mitchell

Moon Mission: Apollo 14

Role: Lunar Module Pilot

Brief Bio: Edgar Dean Mitchell was a United States Navy officer, aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist, and NASA astronaut, born on September 17, 1930, and died on February 4, 2016. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region and was the sixth person to walk on the Moon.

Did you know: Edgar Mitchell claimed that a teenage remote healer using the pseudonym "Adam Dreamhealer" helped him heal kidney cancer from a distance between December 2003 and June 2004, with medical imaging showing the irregularity was gone afterward.

Afterward: After retiring from NASA and the U.S. Navy in October 1972, Mitchell founded Edgar D. Mitchell & Associates and later became the founding chairman of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973, focusing on consciousness research and related phenomena.

Key Statements: "You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it."