Link to the video on NASA website
At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott 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.
Credit: NASA
by Busy_Yesterday9455
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Come on man really? A gif or a video would better illustrate your point than a picture of these two items already on the ground and some text. This is so low effort
This is how you no space aint real I just did this in my garage and the hammer fell more quicker
I have always wondered: nowadays we have quite strict anti-contamination rules etc, when we bring stuff to space/other bodies. We probably didn’t have them (all) back then.
So:
Would bringing a feather (biological matter) even be allowed by today’s rules? Did they ever discuss this in the past? Or maybe was an exception made for the moon?
If anyone knows more about this please share!
Galileo was right!
But steel is heavier than feathers
Damn, how did they manage to get the feather to drop so quickly in the soundstage where they were filming all of these fake “moonwalks”? They must have stuck a tiny weight onto it….. (/s, obviously!)
In space you don’t hear a clunk!