Astronaut Alan Shepard and the 50th anniversary of the first golf swing on the moon — Transcript

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1. 0:00commander alan shepard jr became the
2. 0:02first person to play golf on the moon
3. 0:0450 years ago on the apollo 14 mission
4. 0:06from january 31st to february 9
5. 0:091971. shepard a lover of golf who spent
6. 0:13the latter years of his life in pebble
7. 0:15beach
8. 0:15engineered his own six iron with the
9. 0:17help of a houston golf pro
10. 0:19from a retractable telescopic aluminum
11. 0:21and teflon shaft
12. 0:23usually used to collect rock and dust
13. 0:25samples on the lunar surface
14. 0:27the shaft was manipulated to add a
15. 0:29wilson clubhead shepherd could use to
16. 0:31hit the golf ball into space
17. 0:32once his mission was complete the
18. 0:35modified club fit in a small bag folded
19. 0:37along its five breaks
20. 0:39connected by a piece of string with the
21. 0:41pull of the internal string all five
22. 0:42sections of the shaft
23. 0:44are reconnected and after tying a knot
24. 0:46the shaft became solid
25. 0:47resembling a real golf club once the
26. 0:50mission was complete and no problems
27. 0:52reported
28. 0:53shepard was given permission to take the
29. 0:54first golf swing in space
30. 0:57because of his bulky and weighted space
31. 0:58suit the swing was one-handed and a bit
32. 1:01untraditional but successful nonetheless
33. 1:04he made contact twice the first shot
34. 1:06rolled about 40 yards into a crater and
35. 1:08the second
36. 1:09sailed approximately 200 yards after the
37. 1:12mission shepard donated the club to the
38. 1:14usga golf museum
39. 1:16and library in liberty corner new jersey
40. 1:18where it sits on display along with the
41. 1:20sock shepard used
42. 1:21to carry the two golf balls on his
43. 1:24flight to the moon
44. 1:26and now you're going to give this
45. 1:27historic implement away is that what i
46. 1:29understand
47. 1:29well the whole thing was all fun to
48. 1:31start with because of my love for the
49. 1:32game of golf
50. 1:34and it seemed to me that that the club
51. 1:36really should rest somewhere in the
52. 1:38country where everybody could see it the
53. 1:40usga museum in new jersey seemed the
54. 1:42obvious place
55. 1:43and that of course is the reason for the
56. 1:45occasion today is to give this to bud
57. 1:48from all of my friends my golfing
58. 1:51friends on the moon
59. 1:53admiral we're very happy to receive this
60. 1:56club and it's a great honor for us to
61. 1:57have it in our museum
62. 1:59we now have the two most famous clubs in
63. 2:01golf
64. 2:02one the calamity jane putter that bobby
65. 2:05jones used in his
66. 2:06great career now we have the moon club
67. 2:08which makes our
68. 2:09museum certainly complete thank you very
69. 2:18[Music]
70. 2:20much
71. 2:28you