Counting Down to Apollo

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Alan Shepard Plays Golf on the Moon
Apollo 14 February 6, 1971

Alan Shepard Plays Golf on the Moon

At the end of the second moonwalk, Alan Shepard pulled a makeshift 6-iron head from his suit pocket, attached it to a sample-collection rod, and hit two golf balls on the Moon. He shanked the first one. He caught the second one clean. "Miles and miles," he said. I laughed…
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