Alan Shepard, Commander of Apollo 14, practicing a golf swing on the moon (February 6, 1971). With one arm, he took 4 swings against 2 balls. The first ball traveled 24 yards and the second 40 yards.
By Carl Heinz
Some 53 years after Alan Shepard golfed on the moon, NASA is heading back to the surface of our celestial neighbor with the Artemis III program.
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