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
MV Apollo April, all sailings by the ferry were cancelled due to severe ice conditions in the strait. MV Apollo MV "Apollo" is a vehicle/passenger ferry that currently services the route between St. Barbe, Newfoundland and Labrador and Blanc-Sablon, Quebec, Canada. "Apollo" was originally built for Viking Line of Sweden in 1970. In 1976, she was sold to Olau Line for its service between Sheerness, England and Vlissingen, Netherlands, and was renamed "Olau Kent", before returning to Scandinavia in 1981 as the "Gelting Nord" of Danish operator Nordisk Færgefart. In 1984, she was chartered to Brittany Ferries as the "Benodet", before moving