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Alan Shepard with the American flag in a photo taken by Edgar Mitchell
Apollo 14 (September 27 – October 3, 1970) was the first crewed spaceflight mission by the United States of America to land humans on the Moon. Commander Alan Shepard and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar D. Mitchell landed on the surface of the Moon on September 27, 1970 at 20:14 UTC, the two of them would become the first Americans to ever walk on the moon hours later. It was launched from the Launch Complex 39-A at 21:03, and was the eighth crewed mission of the Apollo program.
The event was broadcasted on live television and saw by millions of people worldwide. Apollo 14 was the beggining of the sometimes called "Second phase of the Space Race" which ended with the landing of Ares 1 on Mars, more than ten years later in 1983. Its success was a great political and propagandistic victory for incumbent President of the U.S. Robert Kennedy, who had the Space Race as one of the main focuses of his administration.