UNIVERSE
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Neil Armstrong was 1st man to step on the surface of the moon
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US mission failure wanting to happen
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Alan Shepard was viewed by millions playing golf on the moon
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President Johnson viewed the launch in person
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shepard was only the 5th person in history to walk the moon but more exciting for golfing earthlings, he was the first to swing a makeshift 6-iron against the bleak landscape. That original golf club is housed on display at the USGA Golf Museum & Library located in Liberty Corner, New Jersey.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shepard and Mitchell spent a total of 33.5 hours on the Moon and performed two extra-vehicular activities (EVAs, or “moonwalks”), totaling 9 hours and 23 minutes. Much of the first EVA was used to deploy a set of experiments, some of which continued to radio data back to Earth until September 1977.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because some 230, 000 miles away, Alan Shepard was playing golf on the moon. Beamed back to TV sets on Earth in grainy images, Shepard’s exploits on Apollo 14 – the eighth crewed Apollo mission and only the third to land on the lunar surface – left viewers stunned, including those at mission control in Houston.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hope took his golf club everywhere, according to the USGA, and Shepard was inspired to do a quick golf session on the moon to demonstrate the moon’s gravitational pull, which is one-sixth that of Earth, according to NASA.
Detailed explanation-5: -“The Moon is one big sand trap and the dust is very fine, ‘’ Shepard explained in 1974. But the third swing connected. With the Moon’s one-sixth gravity, and no atmosphere, there was no drag, hook or slice. Still, it went only about 200 yards-not the miles and miles he exclaimed at the time.
Detailed explanation-6: -On Feb. 6, 1971, 51 years ago to the day on Sunday, Shepard, the commander of the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, took out “a little white pellet that’s familiar to millions of Americans, ‘’ he said to a television audience watching back on Earth.
Detailed explanation-7: -Alan Shepard shanked his first shot into a crater, but estimated that his second reached a distance of about 600 feet (183 meters). Recent evidence from remastered photos taken during the mission, however, suggests that Shepard managed to only hit his second golf ball some 120 feet (36.5 m).