Apollo 14 50th anniversary images find Alan Shepard's ball and how far he hit it
I wonder if things like this would ever happen now. The original Mercury and Apollo astronauts were Air Force test pilots, a group known for picking and choosing which rules they wanted to follow. Sneaking a golf club aboard, not to mention the possibility of falling and tearing his suit, is a non-trivial risk.<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine that culture of risk taking still exists, but at the same time, that culture may be why they were able to get to the moon so quickly.