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Alan Shepard's golf balls

Alan Shepard smuggled a six-iron head to the Moon in a sock, screwed it to a sample scoop handle, and hit two balls one-handed. They are still lying there.

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How the map draws it

Drawn as two golf balls and the six-iron head — the kind of thing, not this exact one · the two balls came to rest tens of metres apart at most, which is far smaller than one pixel here, so they are drawn side by side.