2 August 1971
Waxing Gibbous, 81% lit
A hammer and a feather, dropped together
At the end of the last moonwalk of Apollo 15, David Scott held out a geology hammer and a falcon feather and let go of both at once.
They hit the dust together, on live television, which is Galileo's argument settled in a place with no air to spoil it. Scott's line was that it made Mr Galileo's findings correct. The camera was being operated from Houston, with a delay, and it caught it.
- Date
- 2 August 1971
- Moon computed for
- 20:00 local time, UTC
- Phase
- Waxing Gibbous
- Illuminated
- 81%
Source: Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report, NASA SP-289