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  On Feb. 5, 1971 Dr. Edgar Dean Mitchell became the 6th man to walk on the moon. He, along with fellow moon-walker and Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard would set records for longest duration and greatest distance travelled on the moon. An avid golfer, Shepard snuck a makeshift 6 iron and two golf balls onto the flight. Hitting one handed, after his second strike Shepard described the ball flying "miles and miles and miles".  Not to be outdone, Mitchell grabbed a staff from a solar wind experiment and threw it like a javelin.  It went farther than Shepard's golf ball.

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Fun Fact: Before he ever took that glorious step off the lunar rover and into Squirrel Pepperoni history, Edgar Mitchell played a crucial role in the previous Apollo mission, Apollo 13. His work in a NASA simulator helped develop the procedures that kept those astronauts alive- and would ultimately earn him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1970.

Fun Fact: Mitchell was a big believer in extraterrestrial life having visited Earth. He was a senior in high school in a town not far from Roswell, New Mexico during the famous incident there in 1947.  He said that between speaking to locals there, and later to various military personnel involved with other incidents, that aliens had made contact in an attempt to avert nuclear disaster and promote peace on Earth.