The fourth moonwalk in human account occurred on February 5 , 1971 . The Apollo 14 mission was a gravid one , in part because the tragedy sustain by Apollo 13 ’s crowd had shake ( and then reaffirmed ) public confidence in the place plan . Apollo 14 was a do - over of Apollo 13 , but with a different crew . Commander Alan Shepard — who had been the first American in space — was on the crew . By 1971 , he was the honest-to-god US astronaut to visit blank space , cured 47 .
When Apollo 14 reached the moon , it had trouble land at the Fra Mauro highlands . The cosmonaut ran into trouble dock the Kitty Hawk dictation module with the Antares lunar lander . When that last worked ( after fire the pusher from each craft to force them together ) , the Antares lander ’s radar had fuss calculating distance to the Sun Myung Moon upon line of descent . The glitches were lick just in time to make a landing . When he arrived on the lunar surface , Shepard say , " It ’s been a long way , but we ’re here . "
The next day , toward the end of the second EVA ( extravehicular activity ) and chronicle ’s fifth - ever moonwalk , Shepard proceeded to try something unprecedented : lunar golf . Shepard hadsmuggled a makeshift six - iron in a drogue , along with two golf ball . The nightclub was a little unmatched , as it was a six - iron headmodified by a Houston golf proto fuck onto a rock collecting implement supply by NASA . Shepard was forced to golf game one - handed due to his bulky EVA suit . His first shot was awful ( " I ’m gon na try a small gumption - trap shot here … get more shit than clump ! " ) , but the second traveled an estimated 200 curtilage ( despite Shepard ’s excited argument " mile and miles and miles ! " ) . The whole thing take place on lively TV , over with raillery from Houston on his first " slice"—here ’s a clip :
For more on what Apollo 14 achieved , check out the NASA documentaryApollo 14 : missionary work to Fra Maurohere :
For more on the golf game club ( and the smuggling sock),let thisAtlas Obscuraarticle be your guide .
