A feather and hammer were dropped on the moon to honor which scientist?
The dropping of a feather and a hammer on the Moon was performed to honor the scientist Galileo Galilei.The famous demonstration was carried out by Apollo 15 Commander David Scott on August 2, 1971, during the final moments of his last moonwalk. Scott held a $1.32 \text{ kg}$ geological hammer and a $0.03 \text{ kg}$ falcon feather and released them simultaneously. In the near-perfect vacuum of the lunar surface, both objects struck the ground at exactly the same moment. This iconic experiment visually confirmed, for a worldwide television audience, the 17th-century prediction of Galileo: that in the absence of air resistance, all objects fall at the same rate, regardless of their mass.
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