S1 • E10 Jul 21, 2019
At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, astronaut David Scott conducted Galileo's famous hammer/feather drop experiment. This seemingly benign moment had major implications. While TV cameras beamed the feed into homes around the world, Scott held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Would they fall at the same speed? This Suite revisits those moments as Galileo's theory-upon which the missions homeward journey was based-is critically put to the test.
