When astronaut Alan Shepard went to the moon, NASA didn't know a modified golf club had been tucked into his space suit, with a few balls hidden in a sock. This is the story of how he managed to play the universe's first attempt at lunar golf.
February 6, 1971, was a relatively uneventful day for US sports. Larry Costello’s Milwaukee Bucks swept past the San Francisco Warriors in the NBA, the Boston Bruins defeated the Buffalo Sabres to continue an eight-game unbeaten NHL streak, and Arnold Palmer shot 68 to tie for the lead at the Hawaiian Open. Nothing out of this world you might say, incorrectly. Because some 230,000 miles away, Alan Shepard was playing golf on the moon.
“I want people to feel like this is as close as they can get to walking on the moon themselves,” he said. “You think of the subject matter for any photographer – you’ve got fellow humans doing these incredibly extraordinary things in an extraordinary place against a backdrop that’s literally otherworldly. “Every several hundred images I’m going through, there is something of interest, something of significance, or something that just looks incredible.
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