Apollo program missions. Apollo 13's Fra Mauro mission was reassigned to Apollo 14, commanded in February 1971 by Mercury veteran Alan Shepard, with Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell. This time the mission was successful. Shepard and Mitchell spent 33 hours and 31 minutes on the surface, and completed two EVAs totalling 9 hours 24 minutes, which was a record for the longest EVA by a lunar crew at the time. In August 1971, just after conclusion of the Apollo 15 mission, President Richard Nixon proposed canceling the two remaining lunar landing missions, Apollo 16 and 17. Office of Management and Budget Deputy
Harte Hanks that year with the purchase of the "Anderson Independent" and "Anderson Daily Mail" of Anderson, South Carolina, merging them into the "Anderson Independent-Mail". By 1980, the company owned 29 daily and 68 weekly newspapers, but its fastest growing division was consumer direct marketing, which included marketing agencies, market research firms and direct-mail distributors — the future core of today's Harte Hanks. In 1995, Harte Hanks sold to Community Newspaper Company its interest in the Massachusetts-based "Middlesex News", two other dailies, and associated weeklies in the western suburbs of Boston. It had owned the "News" since 1972 and bought the "News-Tribune"