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•Posted by4 months ago

TIL In 1971, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon. He made four swings, “a shank” with the third, and on the fourth swing he caught the ball flush. “Miles and miles and miles,” he said to the TV audience

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TIL: Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first -- and only -- person to play golf anywhere other than Earth.

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TIL When Alan Shepard was asked what he thought about as he sat atop the Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he had replied, "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder."

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Katherine Johnson, "human computer", famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, in 1962

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TIL in 1971, astronaut Alan Shepard hit 2 golf balls on the moon - he hit the first one into a crater, and claimed to have smashed the second one "miles and miles and miles". However, recent research has shown that the first ball travelled 24 yards (22 m), and the second ball only 40 yards (37 m)

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54 years ago today, Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

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50 years ago, Alan Shepard shanked the first golf shot on the Moon into a crater, but estimated his second traveled about 600 feet (recent research suggests it was closer to 120 feet). Meanwhile, a regular swing (on Earth) by an average PGA Tour pro would send a lunar tee shot about 4,170 feet.

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•Posted by10 years ago

TIL... When Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first American in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder." [Fixed Title]

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TIL In 1971, Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon. He made four swings, “a shank” with the third, and on the fourth swing he caught the ball flush. “Miles and miles and miles,” he said to the TV audience

TIL: Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first -- and only -- person to play golf anywhere other than Earth.

TIL When Alan Shepard was asked what he thought about as he sat atop the Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he had replied, "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder."

Katherine Johnson, "human computer", famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, in 1962

TIL in 1971, astronaut Alan Shepard hit 2 golf balls on the moon - he hit the first one into a crater, and claimed to have smashed the second one "miles and miles and miles". However, recent research has shown that the first ball travelled 24 yards (22 m), and the second ball only 40 yards (37 m)

54 years ago today, Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

50 years ago, Alan Shepard shanked the first golf shot on the Moon into a crater, but estimated his second traveled about 600 feet (recent research suggests it was closer to 120 feet). Meanwhile, a regular swing (on Earth) by an average PGA Tour pro would send a lunar tee shot about 4,170 feet.

TIL... When Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first American in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder." [Fixed Title]

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