Apollo 14
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Sep 6, 2026
Russell DaviesHOST
Because of its size, it's the only one of the lunar seas to be called an ocean.
Russell DaviesHOST
During Apollo 14, Alan Shepard hit golf balls on the moon.
Russell DaviesHOST
What other sporting event did Edgar Mitchell imitate using a staff from a solar wind experiment? The javelin, yes.
Russell DaviesHOST
Mitchell claimed that his javelin actually went about four inches further than Sheffield's golf ball.
Mr. CreepsHOST
We weren't the first beings there.
Mr. CreepsHOST
And now we started finding small signs with the Apollo 14 mission.
Mr. CreepsHOST
There were some little remnants of previous visitors.
Mr. CreepsHOST
The first thing they found were some symbols carved into crater walls.
Mr. CreepsHOST
Nobody knew what the hell they meant.
Mr. CreepsHOST
But we knew that they weren't naturally occurring and that much was obvious.
Mr. CreepsHOST
so they took pictures of all the ones they found pretty sure they're still working on it to this day they'll probably crack the zodiac cipher before that damn thing apollo 17 was when they knew they needed to carry this one on privately that's the last manned moon mission that happened back in 72 for all the world knows we haven't been back since and that's the way they wanted to keep it Apollo 17 found way more than anything previously had.
Mr. CreepsHOST
They found full-on structures.
Tony SquiresHOST
No, there were in fact two golf balls.
Tony SquiresHOST
Apollo 14, Alan Shepard hit them with a little makeshift six
speaker_2NARRATOR
iron.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Got a lot of carry, but still ended up in the bunker.
Tony SquiresHOST
No, there were in fact two golf balls.
Tony SquiresHOST
Apollo 14, Alan Shepard hit them with a little makeshift six
speaker_2NARRATOR
iron.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Got a lot of carry, but still ended up in the bunker.
Gül DölenGUEST
I know it now, and I can really lock in this memory." But it's also, you know, potentially- If it's misused or misunderstood or, you know, if you, if you aren't aware of the seduction of that kind of, "I really know now," um, you know, you can end up believing that you understand or know more than you do, which is why I think that we have to be sort of careful about the potential for using these compounds and then ending up with sort of narcissism or potentially, um, sort of a messiah complex.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
But, but Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell-
Chuck NiceHOST
Uh-huh
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
... upon returning to Earth later on would create the Noetic Institute.
John GenuaHOST
A retired army colonel, John Alexander.
John GenuaHOST
Even Apollo 14 astronaut, Edgar Mitchell.
John GenuaHOST
The sixth man to walk on the moon.
John GenuaHOST
They all sat on the board.
Graham ElwoodHOST
There was Apollo 12, Apollo 13.
Graham ElwoodHOST
We circled it, Apollo 14, Apollo 15.
Graham ElwoodHOST
We did go back into the 70s.
Graham ElwoodHOST
We
WyattHOST
Luckily, they were all safe, in spite of the disaster that occurred on board.
WyattHOST
In January of 1971, Apollo 14 was sent to the moon.
WyattHOST
It restored confidence in the Apollo program by successfully completing its mission, unlike Apollo 13.
WyattHOST
Apollo 14 gathered rocks from the Fra Mauro formation for analysis.
WyattHOST
The mission also set up the ALSEP, an acronym for the package that measured moonquakes, the thin lunar atmosphere, and other scientific data points.
WyattHOST
An astronaut, Shepard, famously hit two golf balls on the lunar surface during this mission with a makeshift club.
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