Apollo 15: Feather and Hammer Experience - Apollo 15: David Scott watching hammer and feather...

Apollo 15: Feather and Hammer Experience - Apollo 15: David Scott watching hammer and feather fall - David Scott realizes the experience of pen and hammer on the Moon. To confirm the law of the fall of Galilee's bodies, David Scott simultaneously released a geologist's hammer held in his right hand and a falcon feather held in his left hand. Both objects fell almost at the same moment on the lunar ground, 1.2 seconds later. TV picture. August 2, 1971. Astronaut David R. Scott, Apollo 15 commander, watches a geological hammer and a feather hit the lunar surface simultaneously in a test of Galileo's law of motion concerning falling bodies, as seen in this color reproduction taken from a transmission made by the RCA color television camera mounted on the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Scott released the hammer from his right hand and the feather from his left at the same instant. This experiment occured toward the end of the third and final lunar surface extravehicular activity. August 2 1971