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From: South Fork, CO
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 02-06-2001 07:14 PM               

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First let me say I really enjoyed Andrew Chaikin's 3 part piece on A14!

Does anyone know if Shepard brought back the golf club head in which he hit that golf ball "mile and miles"? If he did return it, where is it now?

Thanks!

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Wayne Edelman

"Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong, but the man who refuses to take sides must ALWAYS be wrong...let us stand up and be counted." Robert A. Heinlein

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From: Madisonville, Louisiana
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 02-06-2001 09:04 PM               

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I do remember a long time ago seeing a "golf club" mounted in a shadow box with a photo of Alan Shepard on the Moon and a small plaque talking about him hitting the golf ball on the Moon hanging in a dark corner of the Hard Rock Cafe in Atlanta. I know it sounds like a really weird place for it, and I doubt it was the real one. I saw it long before I was interested in space stuff, so I only took a passing glance at it. But I do remember something there...

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Brian Peter
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From: Houston, TX
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Posts: 591
From: Madisonville, Louisiana
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 02-06-2001 10:53 PM               

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There you go. I was way off about Hard Rock Cafe. I guess it was a regular 6 iron.

So, where is Dave Scott's hammer and feather? Did he leave them on the Moon?

These three items would make one helluva collection.

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Brian Peter
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From: Florida
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 02-07-2001 12:30 PM               

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I do not know where the hammer went, it was likely left on the moon. But, Dave Scott may have kept it. I do know what happened to the feather. Jim Irwin accidentally stepped on it, and it was never seen again. A point of some consternation between them, as Dave had intended to bring the feather back as a souvanier. The feather was taken from the Falcon that served as a mascot for the mission. This was covered in Jim Irwins book "To Rule the Night". Im sure Dave Scott must have got over it as he did not leave his buddy Jim behind. He allowed Jim to return to the Endeavor aboard the Lunar Module "Falcon". Nice of Dave wasn't it?
Ed

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ME

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