Apollo 14 spacecraft on display at the US Astronaut Hall Of Fame, located in Titusville, Florida. The US Astronaut Hall Of Fame started off as an independent organization meant to celebrate our American astronauts. It also ran the Florida version of Space Camp. The organization ran into financial troubles and closed in the early 2000's. The NASA Visitor's Center, which is semi-independent from NASA, and not funded by NASA, stepped in and took over the Hall Of Fame. As a result, certain tickets that are good at the KSC Visitor Center are also good at the Hall Of Fame.

Apollo 14 was the mission that NASA simply had to have to show that space travel could be a relatively routine event and reestablish the confidence of the American public following the Apollo 13 accident. While the Apollo 14 landing did have some glitches, the flight was nearly flawless. It was the closest landing to its target of any of the moon landings. It was the first to have full color TV (the color TV camera on Apollo 12 was damaged, and Apollo 11 did not have a color TV camera). It was the first to have the moon cart. Finally, it was the only moon landing to feature one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, Alan Shepard. Shepard developed an inner ear problem that grounded him after his first sub-orbital flight. He underwent an experimental surgery that cured the problem, and Deke Slayton cleared Shepard to fly.

Despite all these firsts, the public largely remembers Apollo 14 for exactly one event. That was Shepard playing golf on the moon. Al had an adapter made that would attach a golf club head to the end of one of their exploration tools. He smuggled two golf balls to the moon, and hit one that went miles and miles. Analysis afterwards showed that miles and miles was actually about 400 yards. Shepard was 47 years old at the time, the oldest person to have walked on the moon.