Golf on the Moon

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American naval aviator and astronaut who became the second person, and the first American, in space. Ten years later, he commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the Moon.

On the 6th of February of 1971 Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf-ball on the Moon, using a ball and golf club head he had smuggled on board inside his space suit. While on the Moon Shepard played golf with a Wilson six-iron head attached to a lunar sample scoop handle. Despite thick gloves and a stiff spacesuit which forced him to swing the club with one hand only, Shepard struck two golf balls with a six iron, driving the second, as he jokingly put it, “miles and miles and miles.”

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