The crew of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission, from left, Stuart Roosa, commander Alan Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell. Roosa remained in orbit while the other two landed on the moon. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" was the first crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. The third manned moon landing was made on February 5, 1971, by the lunar module of Apollo 14, crewed by Commander Alan Shepard and pilot Edgar Mitchell. They landed 13 miles (21 kilometers) north of the Fra Mauro crater. It carried two astronauts, Commander Neil A. Armstrong and LM pilot Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., the first men to walk on the Moon. The astronauts collected samples, took photographs and conducted experiments, one of them being Shepard striking two golf balls. The Apollo Lunar Module, or simply Lunar Module (LM / ˈ l ɛ m /), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the U.S. Apollo program.It was the first crewed spacecraft to operate exclusively in the airless vacuum of space, and remains the only crewed vehicle to land anywhere beyond Earth. "The Eagle has landed…" Mission Objective The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar …
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