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Apollo 14 blasted off to the Moon 50 years ago this weekend. The mission involved about 9 hours of moonwalks, and it culminated with Commander Alan Shepard dropping a golf ball in the powdery regolith before smacking it with his soil-sampling tool. “Miles and miles,” he beamed afterwords.


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