Ah yes, the book Moonshot. Check out the one photo in it of Shepard famously hitting that golf ball on the Moon during Apollo 14. He really did do it, but the particular photo they use is a fake, without even any admittance that it was a recreation.

I have met a few astronauts over the past decade, and maybe it's just because I don't get along with the jock/military mindset, but I was rather put off by their attitudes. Maybe it's just my youthful ideal of these men who braved the heavens going down the toilet of adult reality. Or maybe these guys weren't Tom Hanks. And Tom Hanks probably isn't Tom Hanks either.

The infamous story of the kid who waits to meet his baseball player idol, only to have the guy tell the kid to get the hell of my way.

I bet a robot space probe would never be that rude.