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MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS. APOLLO 14 LLTV FLIGHT - A Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV), piloted by Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., begins a test flight at Ellington Air Force Base on December 14, 1970. Shepard is the commander of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. Shepard used the LLTV to practice lunar-landing techniques in preparation for his upcoming mission. He will be at the controls of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module when it lands on the Moon in the highlands near Fra Mauro. Astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, will remain with the Apollo 14 Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit while Astronauts Shepard and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, descend in the LM to explore the Moon.