00:00On this day in space.
00:04On February 6, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Al Shepard became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon.
00:10Though he was there doing scientific research, the impromptu one-man game of golf was really just for fun, and it was on live television.
00:18Shepard made a makeshift golf club with a six iron head that he smuggled from Earth, and he attached it to the handle of a lunar excavation tool.
00:25He brought two golf balls to hit.
00:27Because his spacesuit wasn't very flexible, he could only swing with one hand.
00:31One of the balls went into a nearby crater, and he claimed that the other flew for miles and miles and miles.
00:37And that's what happened on this day in space.
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