Houston, the ball is in orbit! Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin had successfully hit a golf ball into Earth's orbit from the International Space Station.Tyurin, the station's flight engineer, made a one-armed swat with a gold-plated six-iron to send the lightweight ball on a journey estimated to take it around the Earth at least 48 times before it burns up in the atmosphere.
He spent 16 minutes setting up the shot off a ladder on a Russian docking module with the help of U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria under the guidance of Russian flight controllers.
"OK, there it goes," said Tyurin, who has played golf twice in his life. "It went pretty far. It was an excellent shot."
Link & Image: Reuters
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Tags: Golf | Space | Internation Space Station | ISS | Cosmonaut | Mikhail Tyurin
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