Apollo 15 Hammer & Feather Drop | NASA Moon Gravity Experiment Explained

Apollo program :-

Wikipedia say's • The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived during Project Mercury and executed after Project Gemini.

At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott (pictured above) performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before - all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass.

In 1971, during the Apollo 15 mission, astronaut David Scott performed one of the most iconic physics experiments ever — dropping a hammer and a feather on the Moon to prove that gravity affects all objects equally in the absence of air resistance.

Watch the real NASA footage of this legendary moment on the lunar surface, see the feather and hammer fall together, and learn how it proved Galileo’s theory once and for all.

This short clip is a timeless reminder of human curiosity, science, and exploration beyond Earth. 🌕🚀

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