Apollo 14: Mutiny

The first mission to the Moon after the disastrous events of Apollo 13. The return to spaceflight for the first American in space. A career-ending bout with a pilot’s worst nightmare, uncontrollable dizzy spells. An unsanctioned science experiment to test if human extrasensory perception could reach to the Moon and back. An often rehearsed space docking that succeeded every time except when it mattered the most. When the astronauts blinked their eyes, floating lights accompanied them as silent escorts. An often rehearsed lunar landing seemed impossible if radar could not tell them what craters and boulders they were blind to below them. A failure was inconceivable if Apollo was ever to return to the Moon. And when failure came, the answer was mutiny.

Dr. David Noever graduated from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and Oxford University as a Rhodes' Scholar with a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics. He worked as a NASA space scientist at the George C. Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He was a semi-finalist in the 1990 NASA Group 13 astronaut selection class during the space shuttle era but grew up with a fascination for the Apollo missions and the determined group of pilots, engineers and scientists who guided their generation to go to the Moon.