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Golf in Space Pictures GalleryAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Gallery - 9 image entries
Contest Directions: 
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Russian Central Space Agency was paid an undisclosed sum of money by
the Canadian golf equipment company Element 21 to make the first ever space golf shot. The shot was made in
open space on the International Space Station, and was aired on TV.
After long preparations Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin finally
struck the ball ... and mishit it. It was what golfers call a shank -
that awful moment when you hit the ball with the heel of the club and
it goes off in some unpredictable direction. The ball will now travel
for more than three years, or 460 million miles before falling into
Earth's atmosphere.
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It's not every day you get paid an undisclosed sum of money for a mishit
golf shot. First, you gotta be Russian, second, you gotta be in space,
and third you gotta have balls to play. Which seems like
discrimination to me - what, women can't apply?
In this contest you are asked to photoshop astronauts playing golf in
space: open space, moon, other planets, International Space Station,
etc.
Tags: golf space
Top 9 Contest Gallery Pictures
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| | Try to think of yourself as being 220 miles over the Earth, going around the planet in a space station at 17,500 miles per hour. The eyes of the world are upon you as you prepare to make a historic golf shot that conceivably could travel an amazing 460 million miles. Such was the situation that confronted Mikhail Tyurin. Really, it was rather like one small swing for a man, but a giant promotional stunt ... for a golf equipment company in Canada. There we technical problems in advance of the space golf short. Tyurin's spacesuit overheated. A hatch on the International Space Station ended up getting stuck. By the time Tyurin finally hit the ball, it actually ended up being a mis-hit. Golfers call it a shank -- the ball heading off in an unpredictable direction. The Russians actually were paid what is an undisclosed amount of money by the golf equipment company for the golf shot in space. NASA has taken what might be described as being a grin and bear it attitude towards the Russian's space commercial ventures (or adventures). NASA experts think that the golf ball will travel around Earth for about three days and will then burn up. |
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