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The first man playing Golf on the Moon

Alan Shepard, Apollo 14 commander who carried out the mission to land on the moon turned out to be a Golf fan. Before the departure to the Moon with Apollo 14, Alan Shepard ordered 6 Golf clubs designed to play Golf on the Moon. It was unknown for sure how much the golf club that had been designed and modified, and who made it.

The day before Apollo 14 finished the assignment on the Moon, Alan Shepard played Golf there. The first Golf hit failed because tight and heavy astronaut clothing made it difficult for Alan Shepard to hit perfectly. For the 2nd hit, he managed to make a perfect blow until the golf ball drifted away for miles in the gray sky of the Moon. On the Moon, the object’s gravity is only 1/6 compared to Earth and wind pressure is almost non-existent, so that the golf balls could fall miles on the Moon surface.

Alan Shepard did not realize that he held the first record of human playing golf on the Moon. However, because the technology at that time did his golf playing record has yet to be broken.

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