Astronaut Alan Shepard\'s mission: Fly to the moon.
But did it? Here\'s the little-known but true story of an experiment that may have started as a stunt, but ended up making people think differently about the moon, ask questions, and look for answers..
And since the moon has virtually no atmosphere and gravity that is only a fraction of the Earth\'s, a Golf ball should have been able to go far.
Golf was Shepard\'s favorite sport.
But Alan Shepard had a secret hidden in his sock: two tiny Golf balls.
While the world watched on TV, Shepard and Edgar Mitchell gathered rock and soil samples wearing stiff, heavy spacesuits.
Their mission: Study the moon in more detail than ever before.
In 1971, Alan Shepard and his fellow astronauts made their way to the Moon in the cramped Apollo 14 capsule.
But how far? Find out in this engaging STEM/STEAM picture book.
Hit a Golf ball in low gravity.
Study it in more detail than ever before.
Astronaut Alan Shepard\'s mission: Fly to the moon
