Tee Time on the Moon: How Astronaut Alan Shepard Played Lunar Golf
USA It was 1971 and the Apollo 14 mission would land humans on the Moon for the third time Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 had proved that Moon landings were possible but the Apollo 14 astronauts planned to explore more ground and gather more rock samples The astronauts rode to the Moon in the command module of the Apollo spacecraft Two of them would descend to the Moon in a different part of the spacecraft called the lunar module
Commander Shepard waited for the engines of his Saturn V rocket to ignite in a rush of fire and hot gas that would propel Apollo 14 from Florida to the Moon LIFTOFF
