Apollo 14 Summary . ... The Search for Cone Crater . ... Crew Alan B. Shepard, Jr., commander . ... Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot . Apollo 14 Animations . ... Shepard and Mitchell were out to collect bedrock samples from the rim of Cone and, in the process, to see how difficult it was to climb the hill. ... Shepard may have been thinking that he wouldn't have time for the little surprise he'd planned; and, certainly, he and Mitchell were annoyed that they hadn't found the rim of Cone. ...