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Apollo 14 astronaut’s ‘lost’ golf ball found on moon 50 years later

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A golf ball which an astronaut had claimed was 'lost' on the moon after a massive golf swing has been found 50 years later. Astronaut Alan Shepard famously took a golf swing with makeshift iron and balls during his 1971 Apollo 14 Mission.

Hitting two balls, he originally claimed one had gone into a crater and the other had travelled 'miles and miles'. But newly restored images have revealed that  he may not have been as successful as he first thought.

Image specialist Andy Saunders managed to enhance high-resolution scans of the footage from the original mission using a 'stacking technique' including smaller 16mm footage shot by the crew.

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