Professional Documents
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Brian Welch
Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone: 202/358-1600)
Rob Navias
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 281/483-3671)
Howard Benedict
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, Titusville, FL
(Phone: 407/269-6119)
RELEASE: 98-131
Over a three and a half year period from July 1969 to December
1972, a dozen Americans explored the lunar surface. Shepard was
the fifth man to walk on the Moon, and the oldest, at the age of
47.
Near the end of the second moonwalk, and just before entering
the lunar module for the last time, ShepardÑan avid golferÑhit two
golf balls with a makeshift club. The first landed in a nearby
crater. The second was hit squarely, and in the one-sixth gravity
of the moon, Shepard said it traveled "miles and miles and miles."
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