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REVEALED! How far astronaut Alan Shepard really hit a golf ball on the moon – Golfmagic.com
50 years ago astronaut Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon which he claimed travelled “miles and miles”, but now we know just how far it really went.
An imaging specialist has been able to calculate how far astronaut Alan Shepard really hit a golf ball on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission 50 years ago.
Shepard admitted that his first attempt went terribly wrong and he shanked it into a crater, but the commander of Nasa’s Apollo 14 mission claimed that his second ball travelled for “miles and miles and miles”.
Andy Saunders, an imaging specialist, has digitally enhanced recent high-resolution scans of the original footage of the mission and…
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