Roosa, Stuart Allen (1933-1994), was a United States astronaut. He was a crewman on the Apollo 14 space mission, which made a manned landing on the moon in February 1971. Roosa piloted the command module as it orbited above the moon. His fellow astronauts, Edgar D. Mitchell and Alan B. Shepard, Jr., piloted the lunar module to the moon’s surface.
Roosa was born in Durango, Colorado, on Aug. 16, 1933. He joined the Air Force in 1953 and served as a fighter pilot and as a test pilot. Roosa earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado in 1960. He graduated from the Aerospace Research Pilot School in 1965 and became an astronaut in 1966. Roosa resigned from the astronaut program in 1976. After leaving the astronaut program, he worked in real estate development and opened a beer distributorship in 1981. Roosa died on Dec. 12, 1994.
