Edgar Mitchell

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**Edgar Dean Mitchell**
Astronaut

Nationality	American
Born	September 17, 1930 (age 76) Hereford, Texas
Occupation¹	Test Pilot
Rank	Captain, USN
Space time	9d 00h 01m
Selection	1966 NASA Group
Mission(s)	Apollo 14
Mission insignia
¹ previous or current

Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. (born September 17, 1930) was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. He did this with Alan Shepard as part of the Apollo 14 mission on February 9, 1971. The mission was NASA's third manned Moon landing.

Mitchell was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He obtained a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He also has two Bachelor of Science degrees, one from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and one from Carnegie Mellon University. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the New Mexico State University, the University of Akron, Carnegie Mellon University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He began training at NASA in 1966 and served in the US Navy between 1953 and 1972.

He is also in the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and carried to the moon one of the order's badges, which now rests at his home chapter of Kappa Sigma at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mitchell was portrayed by Gary Cole in the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

[edit] Other Interests

Mitchell's interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena. While on the Moon he conducted private ESP experiments with his friends on Earth. ^[1] In early 1973, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The aim of the nonprofit Institute is to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has ignored, including psychic events. As well as writing academic journals, Mitchell has published Psychic Exploration (ISBN 0-399-11342-8) and the audio-book The Way of the Explorer (ISBN 1-57270-019-X). 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 is 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"^[2] 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."^[3]

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." (Jill Neimark 2006:43).