Who hit a golf ball on the moon?
OWING to the potentially lethal nature of space and weight restrictions on lunar vessels, trips to the moon are usually all business.
The Apollo 14 mission made an exception for one astronaut’s dream to drive a golf ball into the endless expanse of outer space.
Who hit a golf ball on the moon?
NASA astronaut Alan Shepard teed off from the pie in the sky on February 6, 1971.
The rigidity of his suit prevented him from putting everything he had into the iconic shots as the balls traveled , which is hardly enough to find the green at an Earth-based pitch and putt.
Shepard passed away in 1998 at the age of 74 but the memory of his otherworldly drive has stayed preserved in NASA lore.
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How many people have been to the moon?
The moonwalkers are an exceptionally exclusive club.
Just 12 people have set foot on the surface of the moon.
Only four remain alive in February 2022.
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, turned 92 on January 20, 2022, and celebrated the milestone with a to his 1.5million Twitter followers.
12 more astronauts have visited the moon but from the comparative safety of the lunar module.
When is the next scheduled manned trip to the moon?
NASA’s Artemis II mission is the next planned trip that will put humans near the moon–but not on it.
The four-person crew will travel to space in the Space Launch System, a rocket propulsion system that will have the crew traveling at speeds topping 24,500mph.
The rocket will disassemble after breaching the Earth’s exosphere and the crew will approach and circle the moon in a capsule called Orion.
According to their , NASA’s lunar exploration program packet indicates the Artemis II crew will experience an “Apollo 8 moment” in which they witness “the full globe of the Earth from afar, as a backdrop to the Moon”.
The Artemis III mission, theoretically taking place in 2025, is the final installment of the Artemis program and is teed up to be man’s first moonwalk since 1972.
has declared that one of Artemis III's spacewalking crew will take a giant leap for womankind as the first female to set foot on the moon.
Privatized space travel has skyrocketed in feasibility and media attention since Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX started pursuing the world beyond our world.
But private space travel has been dominated by untrained citizens like William Shatner and Michael Strahan, who tagged along on 11-minute autonomous space rides.
Future missions to the moon will require far more involvement from astronauts as Apollo 17, the last mission to the moon, had the crew inhabiting space for 17 days.
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