[sarex] Golf Ball in Space?

["Robert Bruninga" <bruninga@xxxxxxxx>]

> ...hull of the Zvezda Service Module. Tyurin also plans 
> to hit a golf ball from a bracket on Pirs as part of 
> a Russian commercial activity.

Does anyone have any more info on this?

At the AMSAT conference we talked a bit about how we could make
an amateur radio transponder in some golf balls, it it would
entice a golf ball manufacturer to pay for it.  Here is a web
page of the idea:
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/amsat-ideas.html

Bob, Wb4APR


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