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Edgar Mitchell, an Uncommon card
Edgar Dean Mitchell was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist, and NASA astronaut.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 157
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 157 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Edgar Mitchell quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Edgar Mitchell card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
After being commissioned through the ______ Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, he served as a Naval Aviator.
Answer
Officer. After being commissioned through the Officer Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, he served as a Naval Aviator. From the Edgar Mitchell article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in ____ he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, and was the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
Answer
1970s. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971 he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, and was the sixth person to walk on the Moon. From the Edgar Mitchell article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971 he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, and was the sixth person to walk on the Moon.
- Before becoming an astronaut, Mitchell earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Carnegie Institute of Technology and entered the United States Navy in 1952.
- After being commissioned through the Officer Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, he served as a Naval Aviator.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Edgar Mitchell article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Edgar Mitchell
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Esther DufloUncommon · Science · ATK 75 DEF 82
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Edgar Mitchell (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
