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== Spacecraft locations == [[File:Apollo 14 Command Module (5507555344).jpg|thumb|The command module ''Kitty Hawk'' at the Kennedy Space Center]] The Apollo 14 command module ''Kitty Hawk'' is on display at the [[Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex#Apollo/Saturn V Center|Apollo/Saturn V Center]] at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex after being on display at the [[United States Astronaut Hall of Fame]] near [[Titusville, Florida]], for several years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/spacecraft/location/cm.cfm|title=Location of Apollo Command Modules|publisher=[[Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]|access-date=August 27, 2019|archive-date=June 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601052353/https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/spacecraft/location/cm.cfm|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the time of its transfer of ownership from NASA to the [[Smithsonian]] in July 1977, it was on display at the facilities of [[North American Rockwell]] (the company that had constructed it) in [[Downey, California]].<ref name = "hardware" /> The SM reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed, though there was no tracking or sightings of it.{{sfn|Orloff & Harland 2006|p=403}} The [[S-IVB]] booster impacted the Moon on February{{nbsp}}4 at {{Coord|8.181|S|26.0305|W|globe:Moon_type:landmark|name=Apollo 14 S-IVB}}.<ref name=impact /> The ascent stage of lunar module ''Antares'' impacted the Moon on February{{nbsp}}7, 1971, at 00:45:25.7 UT (February 6, 7:45 pm EST), at {{Coord|3.42|S|19.67|W|globe:Moon_type:landmark|name=Apollo 14 LM ascent stage}}.<ref name=impact>{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_impact.html|title=Impact Sites of Apollo LM Ascent and SIVB Stages|publisher=[[NASA]] Space Science Data Coordinated Archive|access-date=August 27, 2019}}</ref> ''Antares''' descent stage and the mission's other equipment remain at Fra Mauro at {{Coord|3.65|S|17.47|W|globe:Moon_type:landmark|name=Apollo 14 LM descent stage}}.<ref name=nssdc /> Photographs taken in 2009 by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter were released on July 17, and the Fra Mauro equipment was the most visible Apollo hardware at that time, owing to particularly good lighting conditions. In 2011, the LRO returned to the landing site at a lower altitude to take higher resolution photographs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html |title=NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites |last1=Neal-Jones |first1=Nancy |last2=Zubritsky |first2=Elizabeth |last3=Cole |first3=Steve |date=September 6, 2011 |editor-last=Garner |editor-first=Robert |publisher=[[NASA]] |id=Goddard Release No. 11-058 (co-issued as NASA HQ Release No. 11-289) |access-date=July 17, 2013}}</ref>
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