Video resources for newsmedia. Full story about how NASA science and technology unearths and preserves priceless and timeless treasures. Scientific advancement has propelled golf to the forefront of recreational activity and sports entertainment within the last decade or so, and it continues to grow. Aerodynamics principles and equipment used to develop rockets and engines is used to create better golf balls. Space research has also improved golf course landscapes and weather forecasting.
More people now are able to enjoy the game .
Alan Shepard, an avid golfer, attached a 6-iron club to the end of a sample collecting tool. Then, he took one-handed swings at two golf balls. The first landed in a nearby crater. Scientists hope to determine the content, shape, history, and the ultimate fate of the universe, by constructing a full-sky picture of the oldest light. NASA's MAP is designed to capture the afterglow of the Big Bang , which comes to us from a time well before there were any stars, galaxies or quasars.