by J. DOUGLAS KENYON
Growing up on the family ranch near Roswell, N.M. in the 1940s provided Apollo 14 astronaut and paranormal researcher-in-the-making Edgar Mitchell with more than a few clues to his destiny. On the way to school, for example, he would walk past the house of reclusive rocket scientist Robert Goddard whose obscure experiments in the 1920s had inspired the German ballistic missiles of World War II and paved the way for Mitchell’s own lunar mission, yet a quarter century away.