Russian astronauts play golf on the universe

Russian astronaut Mikhail Tyurin is preparing to enroll in the history of golfing, with plans to make a tee shot from a position outside the International Space Station (ISS).

Mikhail Tyurin will stand on a ladder attached to the ISS and use a gilded stick to hit a ball of very light weight. The Canadian manufacturer of golf clubs Element 21 paid the Russian space agency an undisclosed amount for the ad.

(Badastronomy) Space experts now have different views about how far the ball will fly in space. Sponsor Element 21 said it would fly for three years, while NASA said it would fall to the earth's atmosphere and be burned within 3 days.

Astronaut Mikhail Tyurin, who has just played real golf twice in his life, is showing great confidence in his out-of-space journey to make a tee shot."I often play ice hockey and understand that they are very similar," the astronaut said.

Mikhail Tyurin will play a golf ball with only one tenth of the same weight still playing under "world" . However, he will only use one hand to play the ball due to the tightness of the bulky astronaut.

Space station commander Michael Lopez-Alegria will accompany Tyurin to go out to film. The golf advertising phase is one of the ways Russian space agencies use to increase their operating budget. Before that, they allowed to paint the Pizza Hut logo on the spaceship and open space travel service for billionaires.

However, this was not the first shot in history because American astronaut Alan Shepard, commander of the Apollo 14, made this action on the moon in 1971.

ISS International Space Station is a research center on the universe that often has people working inside. This is a joint project of 5 major space agencies in the world, including NASA of the United States, RKA of Russia, JAXA of Japan, CSA of Canada and ESA of Europe.

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