Questions tagged [apollo-14]
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Why does the Smithsonian have a replica of Alan Shepard's golf club, and the real one is at a golf museum?
Alan Shepard famously hit two golf balls on the moon. He sneaked the modified head of a Wilson 6-iron golf club on board in a sock, and attached it to the handle of a lunar sample scoop. After ...
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Were these Apollo 14 and 15 recovery images taken (by a Navy frogman) using an underwater camera?
These images were taken after the flotation collar was mounted and inflated by the frogmen. Also the raft was inflated. The divers jumped off a helicopter before, no rescue ship was present. Camera ...
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Did the Apollo missions fly "over the top" of the Van Allen radiation belts?
In the video The Moon Trees That Flew To The Moon On Apollo 14 after about 08:47 Scott Manley says that Apollo 14 "flew up over the top" of the Van Allen radiation ...
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Is this the golf ball that Alan Shepard hit on the Moon?
The BBC News article The Five Greatest Space Hacks of All Time shows a photo of Alan Shepard on the Moon swinging an improvised golf club.
Is the spot in the upper right corner of the photo a golf ...
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At what time in the Apollo 14 mission did the maneuver shown in this image happen, and what exactly was happening?
In a search for information for this answer I received this google books link of Comment: The Relevance of Space, by Arthur Kantrowitz, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 197, 4 April 1971, pp 32-33. ...
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