37 years ago -- Feb. 6, 1971 -- when astronaut Alan Shepard hit history's first extraterrestrial golf shot during Apollo 14

on Nov. 23, 2006. Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin hit a non-regulation 3-gram golf ball from the "porch" of the ISS as part of a paid publicity stunt on behalf of Canadian golf equipment maker Element 21.

he shanked the tee shot right into the Russian-made Zvezda module of the ISS

Alan Shepard set out to make golf history more or less on his own. Shepard snuck his modified six iron and regulation golf balls onto Apollo 14 inside his Personal Preference Kit,

His first one-handed attempt was, by his own description, a "sand trap shot... got more dirt than ball."

His second shot went for "miles and miles," which is Shepard-speak for about 300 yards, give or take a football field.