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the 1971 Apollo 14 lunar mission commanded by Astronaut Alan B. Shepard...
" First golfer on the moon is he,
Yet mad enough to pop.
Because of the lack of gravity,
The poor lad’s putt won't drop."
- Richard Armour, Golf Is a Four-Letter Word (1962)
"Thirty-two years have passed since our most famous amateur golfer astronaut, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., described the exagerrated distance of his moon shot as “miles and miles and miles.”
Although Shepard fired off those two golf balls in moon gravity which is about one-sixth of earth's (moon fact sheet), they did not go miles and miles and miles..."
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