During Apollo 14, Alan Shepard completed an outing on lunar soil with an unexpected accessory. He adapted a golf club head to a tool handle. In front of the camera, the astronaut tries a few shots.
The gesture is limited by the clutter of its combination. This is neither a regulatory part nor a scientific measure of the maximum range of a ball. It is an improvised parenthesis in a mission dominated by samples, procedures and technical constraints.
The image remained: a man on another world tries to carry a familiar hobby. We could multiply the comparisons between the lunar gravity and that of the Earth. Perhaps the most human detail lies in this desire to ask the most extraordinary landscape: how far would a ball go here?
What we know
The distances pleasantly announced by Shepard are not taken as real measurements.
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