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Space
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Robert Z. Pearlman

What brand of golf ball did Alan Shepard hit off the moon? The world may never know

A film still showing a blurry image of an astronaut in a white spacesuit swinging a golf club on the moon and a photo of an autograph golf ball.

Carlos Villagomez owns a golf ball that he believes was flown to the moon. If indeed it was, he may also hold the answer to a more than 50-year-old bit of trivia that otherwise may be forever lost to time.

Villagomez was gifted the ball by Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut to fly into space, fifth human to walk on the moon and the world's first (and to date, only) lunar golfer. Wrapping up his second of two moonwalks on NASA's 1971 Apollo 14 mission, Shepard took a swing at a couple of golf balls.

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