Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

Tag: physics

Apollo 15 August 2, 1971

The Feather and the Hammer

At the end of the final moonwalk, Dave Scott held a geological hammer and a falcon feather — the mascot of the Air Force Academy, where Scott studied — and dropped them together. In the vacuum of the Moon, they hit the surface simultaneously. Galileo was right. I watched on…
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