During the Apollo 14 moon mission Alan B. Shepard hit a golf ball on the moon.
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While the Apollo program did not engage in traditional sports activities such as Golf on the moon, astronaut Alan Shepard famously hit a golf ball while on the lunar surface during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. This lighthearted moment was a demonstration of the moon's reduced gravity and the astronauts' ability to perform tasks in their bulky spacesuits.
Due to the moon's low gravity the golf ball hit by Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard could have traveled over two miles. This means he probably has the longest golf shot of all time.
The first game played on the moon was golf, during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. Astronaut Alan Shepard famously hit two golf balls on the lunar surface.
The Apollo program was a series of space missions conducted by NASA with the goal of landing humans on the Moon and returning them safely to Earth. It was started by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 in response to the Soviet Union's early successes in space exploration.
A program by JFK to get The Americans to space or to the moon!
The space program launched by JFK was called the Apollo program. It aimed to land astronauts on the moon and bring them safely back to Earth. The most famous mission of the Apollo program was Apollo 11 in 1969, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon.
No woman has ever landed on the moon. The first and only manned missions to the moon were carried out by male astronauts as part of the Apollo program.