On Feb. 6, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard became the first person to play golf on the moon. He smuggled a makeshift golf club head onto the spacecraft inside a sock.

When NASA astronaut Alan Shepard blasted off to the moon on Apollo 14, ... Launches & Spacecraft 'Right now, ... working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission.

Apollo 14 became the ... (LM), a probe was mounted to the front of the CM. When the probe was extended, the LM drogue — mounted inside the access tunnel — would guide it to a hole where its ...

Afterwards, the S-IVB was sent on its way to a lonely but spectacular death and the combined Apollo 14 spacecraft continued the voyage to Fra Mauro. ... Inside an Apollo lunar module mock-up.

Fifty years ago today, on January 31, 1971, a Saturn V rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center carrying Apollo 14`. As the follow-on from the ill-fated Apollo 13, this was the Moon mission ...