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Apollo 14 50th anniversary images find Alan Shepard’s golf balls – SlashGear
One of the iconic events that happened during the NASA Apollo era occurred 50 years ago this week. On the Apollo 14 moon mission, astronaut Alan Shepard pulled…
One of the iconic events that happened during the NASA Apollo era occurred 50 years ago this week. On the Apollo 14 moon mission, astronaut Alan Shepard pulled out two golf balls and a golf club on the moon’s surface. The first ball he hit wound up in a crater, and Shepard said that the second shot was smashed for “miles and miles and miles.” While many golfers are prone to bragging, scientists say that Shepard could have hit a ball that far when he smashed it with his club on February 6, 1971.
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