“I had a sonogram and MRI that was consistent with renal carcinoma.”
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Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Dean Mitchell was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist, and NASA astronaut. 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.
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business · American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2016) · military officer · astronaut · aircraft pilot · military flight engineer · businessperson · screenwriter · airman · also Edgar Mitchell, Edgar Dean Mitchell, Edgar D. Mitchell, Mitchell
Born 17 September 1930 · Died 4 February 2016 · Q295873
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So here we are, in the twenty-first century, trying to put two faces of reality—the existence face and the intelligence or conscious face—into the same understanding. Body and mind, physicality and consciousness belong to the same side of reality. Journalist Annie Jacobsen has asserted that Mitchell
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2026· 2 entries
“So here we are, in the twenty-first century, trying to put two faces of reality—the existence face and the intelligence or conscious face—into the same understanding. Body and mind, physicality and consciousness belong to the same side of reality. Journalist Annie Jacobsen has asserted that Mitchell”
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2016· 2 entries
Died 2016-02-04.
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The eve of the 45th anniversary of his lunar landing
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2015· 2 entries
“had been attempting to keep us from going to war [with Russia] and help create peace on Earth.”
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Mitchell said in an interview with the Daily Mirror that extraterrestrials "had been attempting to keep us from going to war [with Russia] and help create peace on Earth
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2011· 1 entry
The federal government of the United States filed a lawsuit against Mitchell in the United States district court in Miami, Florida after discovering that he placed a camera used on Apollo 14 for auction at the auction ho
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2008· 2 entries
Mitchell clarified that his comments did not involve NASA, but quoted unnamed sources, since deceased, at Roswell who confided to him that the Roswell incident did involve an alien craft
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Edgar Mitchell was interviewed on Kerrang Radio by Nick Margerrison
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1997· 1 entry
Mitchell was interviewed for NASA's oral history program
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1996· 1 entry
During which he discussed meeting with officials from three countries who claimed to have had personal encounters with extraterrestrials
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1989· 1 entry
Ledbetter and Mitchell married in 1989 and divorced in 1999.
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1984· 1 entry
When he began an affair with former Playboy model Sheilah Ann Ledbetter
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1983· 1 entry
And later served as chairman of the Mitchell Communications Company
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (1979).
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1976· 1 entry
Mitchell attempted to secure additional funding for the SRI group's remote viewing research in a private meeting with then-Director of Central Intelligence George H
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1975· 1 entry
Moved to nearby Lantana, Florida, where he resided for the rest of his life
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1973· 1 entry
For the purpose of consciousness research and other "related phenomena"
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1971· 3 entries
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1971).
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In the hilly upland Fra Mauro Highlands region of the Moon
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Spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, and was the sixth person to walk on the Moon
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1970· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Richard Nixon (1970).
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1961· 2 entries
And a Doctor of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1964
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Received his second bachelor's degree, in aeronautical engineering, from the U
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1952· 1 entry
Where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity
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1948· 1 entry
Studied at Artesia High School (1948).
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1933· 1 entry
Sandra Jo, and Jay Neely "Coach", who was a member of the inaugural graduating class of the United States Air Force Academy in 1959, and a pilot with the United States Air Force (USAF), achieving the rank of colonel
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1930· 2 entries
In Hereford, Texas, to Joseph Thomas Mitchell and Ollidean Margaret Mitchell (née Arnold)
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Born 1930-09-17.
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