Astronaut Neil Armstrong: First person to step on the moon.Courtesy NASA/Wikimedia CommonsNew research presented this week at the Cheltenham Science Festival in England will finally put to rest the long-running Apollo 11 controversy of whether astronaut Neil Armstrong botched his historic quote when he first stepped onto the lunar surface. Go here for the full story. Hopefully, they'll clear up the "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky" mystery, too.
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That's hard to say. The lake is never the same temperature throughout. If your talking surface...
what is the coldest lake superior has ever beeb??
Why won't they be at the top of the food chain/ web?
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That's great, but what I really want to know is where did Alan Shepard's golf ball land that he hit on the moon. I bet he out-drove Tiger Wood's best hit on Earth.
Shephard hit two golf balls (and may have taken a mulligan) on the Moon using a Wilson six-iron head attached to the handle of a lunar-sampler tool. His first shot, which he almost duffed, plopped into a nearby crater (I've often made that same shot into a sand trap here on Earth). But his second shot was hit squarely and according to Shephard himself went "miles and miles and miles." Watch video of the "historic" event here. I don't believe it's ever been revealed which kind of golf ball he used. The makeshift golf club is on display in the lobby of the Cosmosphere in Kansas.
It looks like he had a pretty lousy lie where the ball was sitting.
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