NASA Photo ID: S71-43788           File Name: 10075755.jpg
Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 08/02/71
Title: Astronaut David Scott watching hammer and feather fall to lunar surface
Description:
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.               
Subject terms:
APOLLO 15 FLIGHT                        
APOLLO PROJECT                          
ASTRONAUTS                              
EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY                 
LUNAR EXPLORATION                       
LUNAR SOIL                              
LUNAR SURFACE                           
REDUCED GRAVITY                         
SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
TELEVISION TRANSMISSION                 

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