Une Balle De Golf Trouvée Sur La Lune

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Une balle de golf perdue a été retrouvée sur la lune ! En 1971, l'astronaute Alan Shepard a décidé de faire un swing alors qu'il était là-haut sur Apollo 14. Parlez d'un tee-off cosmique ! Il a utilisé un club de fortune et a envoyé cette balle voler dans l'espace, marquant l'histoire comme la première personne à jouer au golf sur la lune. La balle ne s'est pas simplement évanouie dans l'abysse lunaire - elle a été repérée plus tard par l'orbiteur de reconnaissance lunaire de la NASA en 2009. Alors, la prochaine fois que vous shankez une dans le rough, souvenez-vous, au moins, vous ne récupérez pas votre balle depuis une autre planète !  Animation créée par Sympa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Musique par Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com   Pour ne rien perdre de Sympa, abonnez-vous!: https://goo.gl/6E4Xna​ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nos réseaux sociaux : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sympasympacom/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sympa.officiel/  Stock de fichiers (photos, vidéos et autres): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Si tu en veux encore plus, fais un tour ici:  http://sympa-sympa.com

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00:00 What would you say about playing golf, not on Earth, but on the Moon?

00:04 Let's go back 50 years.

00:07 An astronaut transformed the lunar surface into a super unusual golf course.

00:12 Unprecedented.

00:13 All golfers will tell you how difficult it is to avoid sand pits.

00:18 Now imagine Alan Shepard, a NASA astronaut,

00:22 struggling on a surface all very fine powder.

00:26 During the Apollo 14 mission, he took a break to show his space golfer skills

00:32 to all those who watched him from Earth.

00:34 After his first shot, he was in a hurry to make another one.

00:37 The ball seemed to go infinitely.

00:40 Let's go back to our reality for a moment.

00:43 Thanks to the research of the United States Golf Association, or USGA,

00:48 we have some figures.

00:50 Researchers have found that Alan's first lunar ball traveled 22 meters

00:54 and the second 37 meters.

00:56 The comparison with golf shots on Earth?

00:59 In normal conditions of gravity, the ball travels a hundred meters in general.

01:04 A perfect technique on Earth, thanks to technology and training.

01:08 So that doesn't mean we would necessarily be champions on the Moon?

01:12 But let's pay tribute to Alan.

01:17 Playing golf on the Moon is not as simple as we might think.

01:21 He didn't even have a real club.

01:23 He had to make one by attaching to a lunar sample collector

01:27 a club head on board the mission.

01:30 And then imagine that he was wearing a very impractical suit.

01:34 A swing in a rigid outfit like cardboard?

01:37 Not easy.

01:38 As a result, Alan could only swing with one hand.

01:41 Want to try?

01:42 You may not be able to play golf on the Moon right away,

01:45 but you can try to play underwater.

01:47 It is said that the conditions there are similar.

01:50 But things are getting even more interesting.

01:53 The USGA did not stop believing Alan.

01:56 Researchers decided to conduct the investigation.

01:59 To begin with, they used hyper-sophisticated images of the Apollo 14 mission.

02:04 They also used high-quality images taken with the NASA Moon Camera,

02:08 launched in 2009.

02:10 With these images, they were able to trace the path of these two golf balls.

02:17 Alan fell in love with his lunar golf club,

02:20 and he brought it back to Earth.

02:22 Nothing more normal, you might say.

02:24 But then, astronauts were leaving some useless objects on the Moon

02:29 to make room for the samples.

02:31 But he took his club.

02:33 Thus, in the 1970s, this space golf club

02:37 was exposed in the USGA museum in New Jersey.

02:41 Unlike ordinary clubs, this one had a particularity.

02:45 Made of aluminum and teflon,

02:47 it was designed to bend to take up as little space as possible in a lunar module.

02:52 But how did this idea of golfing on the Moon come about?

02:55 Well, in 1970, the golf legend Bob Hope

02:59 visited NASA.

03:01 Inspired by the champion's passion,

03:03 Shepard had an idea of golfing on the Moon.

03:06 To realize his dream, he worked with a professional in this sport,

03:09 as well as with NASA technicians.

03:11 Together, they built a club that met the strict safety standards of the space agency.

03:16 But beware, Alan did not want to do something simply extravagant.

03:24 Remember, traveling on the Moon required very strict protocols.

03:28 They were not going to go on a picnic up there.

03:30 Alan therefore made sure that the NASA officials

03:33 agreed with this little impromptu golf game.

03:36 At first, they were skeptical,

03:38 but they finally gave their green light after Alan exposed his plan.

03:42 He promised them that he would only play if everything went well during the mission.

03:46 Determined to reach perfection,

03:48 Alan prepared himself like a champion.

03:50 The story goes that he put on his heavy space suit

03:53 and went to train in secret places.

03:56 Decades later, he still thinks of his lunar escapade.

04:00 He is the only golfer to have ever swung on the Moon.

04:03 Astronauts did not just leave golf balls during their trip.

04:07 They actually left a large number of objects on the Moon

04:10 between 1969 and 1972, the year of the last moon landing.

04:15 Every time you admire the Moon,

04:20 remember that there is a nice family photo up there,

04:23 huge scientific gadgets, a small statue,

04:26 a bunch of garbage bags, and, also, some American flags.

04:30 The years have passed, and technically, these objects are still on the Moon.

04:34 But in what state, we will not know.

04:36 Conditions are rather difficult on the Moon.

04:39 Some objects had a special place in the hearts of astronauts,

04:42 but still had to be abandoned.

04:44 But, well, leaving some things

04:46 meant that they could bring back very precious samples.

04:49 You know that.

04:51 It's like when you have to make room in your suitcase

04:53 for your souvenirs at the end of the holidays.

04:56 Does NASA have a complete list of things abandoned on the Moon?

04:59 No, not really.

05:01 In fact, a team tried to create a list of all these objects,

05:04 and they were able to count up to 600 articles

05:07 belonging to the only Apollo 11 mission.

05:09 And that's not to mention the famous footprints of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

05:13 The scientific material is the most important of the most voluminous objects

05:21 on each landing site.

05:23 There are, for example, module pieces and instruments

05:26 allowing the study of the lunar soil.

05:28 But we also find very beautiful testimonies.

05:31 The Apollo 11 plate, or a special disc containing messages from leaders from around the world.

05:36 Some say that astronauts also won medals

05:40 in memory of heroic cosmonauts.

05:42 And that they even left a golden olive branch.

05:45 A symbol of peace.

05:47 The subsequent lunar missions were a little more fun.

05:50 Like Alan Shepard's and his golf game.

05:53 But it's Charlie Duke who wins the palm of emotion.

05:57 During the Apollo 16 mission, he left a photo of his family Belabo.

06:01 He wanted them to be part of the adventure too.

06:04 However, these photos probably did not age well

06:08 due to the strong exposure of the moon to solar radiation.

06:11 There would even be an art museum up there on our satellite.

06:15 Let me explain.

06:16 A small work of art called the Moon Museum was deposited there.

06:20 It's a ceramic chip the size of a fingernail.

06:23 It was created by an artist named Forrest Myers.

06:27 This tiny object features works of miniature art by six talented artists.

06:33 Among them, we find for example the famous Andy Warhol.

06:38 The artist of genius, known for his emblematic soup boxes and his celebrity portraits.

06:43 Forrest Myers said he wanted his mini-museum to be placed on the moon.

06:48 But there was a problem.

06:50 The NASA officials did not agree.

06:53 However, Myers said in the press that he had given his chip to an engineer working on the Apollo 12 mission.

06:59 According to Myers, this engineer secretly hid the Moon Museum on one of the lander's legs.

07:05 In case you haven't understood yet, these lunar landers don't come back to Earth after their mission.

07:11 Take this with a grain of salt, however, because NASA has never confirmed this story.

07:16 You may be wondering, "But why did they leave all these things?"

07:20 Sometimes it was for a specific purpose.

07:22 Other times, it was purely practical.

07:24 At one point, it was said that during the Apollo 11 mission, for example, a decision had to be made.

07:30 The astronauts had to quickly determine what was essential for their return trip.

07:34 And they had to create a kind of discharge, leaving this place with everything it no longer needed.

07:40 Leaving things on the Moon is not so different from what we do on Earth.

07:46 Just as archaeologists do excavations to learn more about our ancestors,

07:50 the objects left on the Moon mark the passage of man on the satellite.

07:54 Some objects had fulfilled their mission.

07:57 For example, the mast of the flag, or the camera, which served to broadcast these famous giant steps.

08:04 And many tools used by astronauts to collect samples were left in place.

08:09 Because there were much more precious things to bring back to Earth.

08:13 Lunar pebbles.

08:15 As for the current state of all these objects, scientists do not all agree.

08:20 We know that the lunar observer of NASA has detected some of their shadows.

08:25 And that they are still up there.

08:27 The work equipment had been built to last.

08:31 So it could be that it is in good condition.

08:33 But all these personal objects, they are probably unknown today.

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