March 03, 2024
In 1971 astronaut Alan Shephard used the head of a 6-iron golf club attached to a rock-collecting tool to hit golf balls on the Moon. Despite lunar gravity being one-sixth that of Earth, his shots went only 24 yards and 40 yards.
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What Have We Left on the Moon?
In July 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history as the first human beings to land on the Moon’s surface. Five more crewed missions made it to the Moon in the years that followed before the Apollo program ended in 1972. To date, 24 astronauts (all Americans) have visited the Moon, 12 of
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