Astronaut David Scott in 1971, from the Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Journal. Scott was part of the Apollo 15 crew, and applied Galileo’s findings about gravity and mass by testing a falcon feather and a hammer.
via kottke.org This is an actual demonstration of a feather and a hammer being dropped at the same time in a vacuum on the surface of the moon, from Apollo 15.
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