(usatoday.com) - The record for the longest golf drive in history is likely to be smashed by thousands of miles Wednesday, when a Russian cosmonaut on a spacewalk hits a special golf ball as a promotional stunt, reports Trend.
The bulky spacesuit makes a two-handed swing impossible. So Mikhail Tyurin, now living on the International Space Station, will tap the ball with only one hand on the club.
The ball will rest inside a wire nest rather than atop a tee to keep it from floating away. Tyurin will wedge one foot between some brackets so he doesn't drift away while taking aim. If that doesn't work, NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria will hold down Tyurin's feet.
NASA will receive no money from Element 21 Golf, the company that makes the club Tyurin will use. The Toronto-based company won't divulge how much it's paying the Russians. It plans to use footage of the stunt in a commercial, and it plays up the link between its new club and the station's exterior, both made partly of the same high-tech alloy.
