Space station commander Pavel Vinogradov will not smack a golf ball into orbit outside the International Space Station (ISS) during a planned spacewalk next week, NASA officials have said.

Vinogradov, commander of the station's Expedition 13 mission, was slated to hit a golf ball into space during a June 1 spacewalk as part of an agreement between Russia's Federal Space Agency and the Canadian golf equipment firm Element 21 (E21) Golf Co. "It's definitely not in this one," NASA ISS spokesperson Kylie Clem told SPACE.com of the golf shot. "We've been told that it's been pushed to the next [Russian] spacewalk."

"Just about every single record for distance in the golf industry will be shattered this fall when an astronaut will hit a golf ball into orbit around the Earth using an E21 golf club," Element 21 said in a statement earlier this month.

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