Apollo Fourteen on the Moon, Fra Mauro
Golf on the Moon: How Far Did He Hit It?
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Fifty years ago this week, Alan Shepard famously hit two golf balls on the Moon. The first he shanked into a crater. The second he claimed to have smashed "miles and miles and miles". Now, while all golfers are prone to hyperbole, Shepard, who was commander of Nasa's Apollo 14 mission, could well have hit his ball that far on 6 February 1971 - despite only using a makeshift six iron that he had fashioned out of a collapsible tool designed to scoop lunar rock samples, and which he had sneaked aboard in a sock. (read more)
NASA footage of the mission fifty years ago.
