Alan Shepard Plays Golf on the Moon

This is an event the Minister remembers watching on television when he was nine years old:

Near the end of the EVA, following completion of the geology traverse and just prior to loading the collected samples into the LM, Alan Shepard attached a 6-iron golf club to the end of a sample collecting tool and took one-handed swings at two golf balls. He joked that the second ball traveled "miles and miles," although it actually traveled only a few hundred meters.