Moon Shot: Alan Shepard plays golf in space — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
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3. 0:09now there's no atmosphere there so you
4. 0:12could put a spin on it and it won't hook
5. 0:14or
6. 0:17slice and I have to say I could not
7. 0:19follow the
8. 0:23trajectory and I went into the suit room
9. 0:25at night where the suit technician
10. 0:27pressurized the suit and practice
11. 0:29swinging
12. 0:31out they had completed everything they
13. 0:33had on their timeline no there was no no
14. 0:35problem at least in my mind and I don't
15. 0:37think anybody in Mission controls
16. 0:40manst then I went to see the boss he
17. 0:43said no way absolutely not is far too
18. 0:46frivolous he said you've been giving me
19. 0:48problems for many years shepher the
20. 0:50answer is absolutely no we're on the Sur
21. 0:54okay Al had to get approval to do this
22. 0:57and it worked it worked its way through
23. 0:59the system okay let's go to
24. 1:01work F he said Okay Shepherd you win
25. 1:06yeah it's a beautiful day here
26. 1:08it's I volunteered to be a a capsule
27. 1:11Communicator a Capcom for that mission
28. 1:13he was the one that was doing the actual
29. 1:15communication between Mion mle and
30. 1:17between us on the surface he had no idea
31. 1:19what was happening what I had planned to
32. 1:22do was to get in front of the television
33. 1:23camera which beamed the images back to
34. 1:26Earth so they could see what I was doing
35. 1:28Al went and pulled out
36. 1:30what you could see fairly clearly on the
37. 1:32TV was looked like a golf club we had an
38. 1:36extendable collapsible handle that we
39. 1:38normally use for the scoop on the end so
40. 1:40I had the local Pro take the head of a
41. 1:42six IR put a little fitting on it so it
42. 1:44snapped on the end of this handle H law
43. 1:47you're looking that up you might
44. 1:48recognize what I have in my hand is the
45. 1:51handle for the contingency sample return
46. 1:53I just still happens to have a genuine
47. 1:55six iron on the bottom of it in my left
48. 1:57hand I have a little white pet that's
49. 1:59mils
50. 2:00American drop it down unfortunately the
51. 2:03city is so stiff I can't do this with
52. 2:05two hands but I could try a little sand
53. 2:07trap shot here even though I tried to
54. 2:09keep my head down on the first swing I
55. 2:11really
56. 2:12didn't and I hit a shank it was just
57. 2:15sort of a oneand chili dip kind of thing
58. 2:19dir B here we go
59. 2:22again yeah I'm not sure how his lie was
60. 2:25either the Moon is kind of like one big
61. 2:27sand trap here we go
62. 2:33it look like a SLI to me out one more I
63. 2:37admit that once I tossed the ball down I
64. 2:39kind of teed it up a little bit got a
65. 2:41little bit of a better lie cuz I figured
66. 2:43nobody was going to quote the rules of
67. 2:45golf to me from a quar of A Million
68. 2:46Miles Away anyway miles and miles and
69. 2:50miles the whole room was pretty excited
70. 2:52about
71. 2:53it now everybody in the golfing World
72. 2:57thought it was fantastic youd tell a guy
73. 2:59I said how far do you get your drive
74. 3:01well I you I could drive soon and 50
75. 3:03yards I said Do You Realize on the moon
76. 3:06you could hit that driver, 1500
77. 3:10yard and the guy's eyes get big and he
78. 3:12said now wait a minute I got to tell you
79. 3:14the golf course is now 42,000 yd long