there is no memo there is no smoking gun that says this is why it's gonna be alan shepard and there are a lot of different accounts. but here's what i've been able to put together. first of all alan shepherd was a phenomenal pilot, but of course so was john glenn they were understood within the program to to be the two most impressive pilots and really leaders of the mercury 7. they were the standout personalities. it was clear from moment one when they walked in the door that these were the strongest personalities they were probably likely to clash and that the real competition was between the two of them and they had very different styles. i mean, i called them leaders, but the truth is and shepherd admitted this himself. he wasn't that interested in leaning leading. he was interested in winning. glenn was interested really in both. glenn had always been a leader in every environment and that he that he'd been in and he expected probably without even being that that without admitting it to himself that he expected that he would be looked to as the oldest astronaut. as i said before th

alan shepard, the first american in space, rode for 15 minutes, came back. so in 1962, the second group came along and when they came on, jean shoemaker here in flagstaff, who had brought the branch of astro geology here specifically to prepare for the moon missions, he talked to nasa and he and some other scientists and said if we're going to plan to, send people to the moon, should do more than just plant a flag and back. we should do science. what better way to learn about the origins of our planet and who we are then? by studying another body in the solar system, very similar to ours, kind of our partner, as it were. and so in january 1963, the next nine astronauts, it's the second group that included armstrong, jim lovell, frank, borman and others. they came out here on a very cold, flew into flagstaff airport. they flew on two planes in case one crashed. not all the astronauts would have perished. that the thinking. then they flew. and these guys were rock stars. they were met by the mayor. they were met by cheering fans autographs. but they went to me

so we just asked you which club did astronaut alan shepard use to make that all famous of all golf shotson, 6 iron, 7 iron, sand edge? i don't know if you play golf, lauren -- lauren: no. i've tried it. i'm not very good at it. i'm going to go with the 7 iron. ashley: that's a good guess request. i'm going to go with the 9 -- it's either the sand wedge or the 9 iron. and the answer is, we're both wrong, it's the 6 iron. probably the hardest of them all to the hit, but i guess when you're on the moon, it doesn't take a lot. lauren: why would he pick that one? ashley: i don't know, maybe service the his favorite club. shepard who commanded, of course, the apollo 14 mission, hit the golf ball on his fourth swing, three whiffs in front of a t audience back -- a tv audience back home. the markets are moving higher on this friday, we are down on "varney & company." thanks for joining us. "coast to coast" starts now. ♪ ♪

did astronaut alan shepard use to make that all famous of all golf shots on the moon? the 9 iron, 6 iron, 7 iron, sand edge? i don't know if you play golf, lauren -- lauren: no. i've tried it. i'm not very good at it. i'm going to go with the 7 iron. ashley: that's a good guess request. i'm going to go with the 9 -- it's either the sand wedge or the 9 iron. and the answer is, we're both wrong, it's the 6 iron. probably the hardest of them all to the hit, but i guess when you're on the moon, it doesn't take a lot. lauren: why would he pick that one? ashley: i don't know, maybe service the his favorite club. shepard who commanded, of course, the apollo 14 mission, hit the golf ball on his fourth swing, three whiffs in front of a t audience back -- a tv audience back home. the markets are moving higher on this friday, we are down on "varney & company." thanks for joining us. "coast to coast" starts now. ♪ ♪ neil: the highest court in the land blocks a president, but there is no blocking buyers. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto on the final trading day of the month and

john glenn's wife alan shepard's wife. one of my favorite books of all time is the right stuff which is the course that work about those astronauts. i wanted to read lily koppel's book to see how she had done it. i wanted to see how she had taken t this story which we all know and flipped it around and reverse and told it from the opposite perspective. so i'm reading this book very closely on the plane and very early in the book you mentioned that one of the wives was a private pilot who had longs to fly in an all-female airplane race with that started in 1920s and featured amelia earhart. that's the line that stopped me because like most of you i had never heard of air racing and an all-female air race. i had never heard of familiar racingng anything. i'd onlyy knew the story that most of this flu, she flew across the ocean so because it was 2015 and i was able to open my computer and get wi-fi on the plane and google it and i don't know what happens when you do that now but in 2015 when you googled this race all i really

so john glenn's wife alan shepard's wife and you know. one of my favorite books of all time is tom wolfe's the right stuff, which is of course that seminal work about the mercury 7. and so i wanted to read lily koppel's book to see how she had done it, which is actually a thing that authors do i wanted to see how she had taken this story which we all know. and and flipped it around in reverse and told the sort of from the opposite perspective. and so i'm reading this book very closely on the plane. and i'm very early in the book and it mentioned that one of the wives was a private pilot. who had longed fly in an all-female airplane race that had started in the 1920s 1920s and had once featured amelia earhart. and that's the line that just stopped me. because like most of you i had never heard of air racing. i had never heard of in all female air race. i'd never heard of amelia racing anything. i only knew that story that most of us knew she flew across the ocean. she was the first one to do it. and so because it was 2016 i was able to ope