Included with this lot is a letter of authenticity signed "Edgar Mitchell" on his personal letterhead, stating (in part): "This letter is to certify that the accompanying Apollo 14 embroidered crew patch was carried into lunar orbit aboard the spacecraft Kittyhawk in my personal preference kit (PPK) during the Apollo 14 mission to the moon... The Apollo 14 crew of Captain Alan Shepard, Mission Commander, Lt. Col. Stuart Roosa, Command Module pilot, and myself as Lunar Module Pilot, flew the third landing mission to the moon, with the objective of conducting the first surface investigations of the lunar geology..."