http://www.startribune.com/722/story/297190.html
In what will easily be the longest 6-iron shot in golf history, a Russian cosmonaut is scheduled to hit a gold-plated golf ball this summer from a makeshift tee outside the International Space Station.
If all goes as planned, the smash will travel 2.1 billion miles in orbit before burning up in Earth's atmosphere, giving a Canadian golf club manufacturer the kind of publicity that can't be found back on Earth.
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NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said the U.S. space agency would not consider a commercial deal like this one, in part because of fears that the space station, which is already considered a white elephant by some space enthusiasts, would become a greater source of ridicule.
"That's how they've chosen to exercise their resources," he said of the Russians. "We're not allowed to do it at NASA."
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