During Apollo 15, astronaut David Scott dropped a falcon feather and a hammer on the lunar surface.

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]Well, in my left hand, I have a a feather.

[00:00:03]In my right hand, a hammer.

[00:00:04]And I guess one of the reasons we got here today was because of a gentleman named Galileo a long time ago who made a rather significant discovery about falling objects [music] in gravity fields.

[00:00:14]And we thought that where would be a better place to confirm his findings than on the moon?

[00:00:20]And so we thought we'd try it here for you.

[00:00:23]And the feather happens to be appropriately a falcon feather for our falcon.

[00:00:28]And I'll drop the two of them here and hopefully they'll hit the ground at the same time.

[00:00:33]>> [music] >> How about that?