Javalin
On Apollo 14, Ed Mitchell made the only "javelin" throw on the moon when he tossed an unneeded metal rod.
Photo (AS14-66-9337) of the lunar surface taken during the Apollo 14 mission. The enlarged region contains one of the golf balls hit by Alan Shepard ; next to the golf ball is the Solar Wind Collection mast thrown as a javelin by Edgar Mitchell.
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A climb and a throw
Deploying scientific instruments and collecting almost 95 pounds (43 kilograms) of moon rocks — in part by using a pull cart (the modular equipment transporter, or informally, the "lunar rickshaw") only used on Apollo 14, Mitchell and Shepard came within 100 feet [30 m] of the rim of Cone Crater, a mission objective — without realizing how close they really were.
"Our positions are all in doubt now," reported Mitchell, after he and Shepard had climbed up the crater's side for some time. "What we were looking at was a flank... but it wasn't really the top of... it wasn't the rim of Cone. We have got a ways to go yet."
Ultimately, flight controllers directed pair to give up on the rim and return to the lunar module.
Before going back in inside though, Mitchell and Shepard allowed for a moment of levity. Shepard famously revealed his makeshift golf club, taking a couple of swings at "little white pellets." Not to be outdone, Mitchell became the first and only javelin thrower on the moon.
"When Alan hit his golf balls and I kvetched... I then picked up the staff from the solar wind experiment, which we had already folded up and put in the return bay, and used that tall staff as a javelin and threw it after his golf ball," Mitchell recounted.
Photo (AS14-66-9337) Nasa
This image consists of six photographs taken from the Lunar Module, enhanced and stitched into a single panorama to show the landing scene, along with the location from where Shepard hit the balls
Text: Nasa