well, when i went to bob gilruth to tell him i wanted to hit a couple of golf balls, of course, absolutely no way. there was a series when i saw it was not a normal golf club. it was a handle with a scoop on the end to scoop up handles of dust with. that was already up there, would be thrown away. then we had a club head which i adapted to snap on this handle and two golf balls for which i paid, two golf balls and the club head. no expense to the taxpayer. the thing that finally convinced bob was i said, boss, i'll make a deal with you. if we have screwed up, if we have had equipment failure, anything has gone wrong on the surface where you are embarrassed or we're embarrassed, i will not do it. ly not be so frivolous. i want to wait until the very end of the mission, stand in front of the television camera, whack these golf balls with this makeshift club, fold it up, stick it in my pocket, climb up the ladder, close the door and we're gone. so he finally said okay. and that's the way it happened. >> if full view of a huge worldwide audience, millions of people who have never forgotten to