If you had a friend on the moon, what would you do together? Edgar Mitchell picked the least scientific answer possible. In February of 1971, at the end of his second and last moonwalk, he grabbed a long metal pole used for a solar-wind experiment and threw it like a javelin across the lunar surface. NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day says that pole is still in a shallow crater near a rock dubbed Turtle Rock, close to one of the golf balls his crewmate Alan Shepard had hit earlier that same day. Decades later, the two objects remain frozen in place, untouched, in a world with no wind or rain.
A crew that landed with a little fun in mind
