With the Apollo 15 moonwalk coming to an end on this day (August 2) in 1971, Commander Dave Scott told Mission Control in Houston, "There's something I think you'll find rather interesting..." He turned to the TV camera and showed the live TV audience, a hammer (in his right hand) and a feather (in his left hand) and pointed out that centuries earlier Galileo had said that without air resistance all objects would fall at the same rate of speed. Scott dropped the hammer and the feather from the s

On October 30, 1964, NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, or LLRV, took to the skies for the first time Space History Archives👉https://space-com.visitlink.me/W_zRxL The LLRV was a bizarre, four-legged flying contraption commonly known as the "Flying Bedstead." NASA used it to simulate moon landings and liftoffs on Earth to prepare for Apollo 11. The first person to give it a whirl was the X-15 pilot Joe Walker. During this test flight, he reached an altitude of about 10 feet, and he hovered t