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Which reaches the Moon first: a hammer or a feather? Apollo 15 commander David Scott dropped both together. With essentially no air resistance, lunar gravity accelerated them together. This illustrated explanation separates the 1971 demonstration from the physics behind it.

Sources: NASA Science, The Apollo 15 Hammer-Feather Drop: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/the-apollo-15-hammer-feather-drop/ ; NASA History, 50 Years Ago: Apollo 15 on the Moon at Hadley-Apennine: https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-apollo-15-on-the-moon-at-hadley-apennine/ .

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These packages contain AI-generated scene art and generic Voicebox/Kokoro GreenSpacealien narration; they do not intentionally impersonate a named real person or present conceptual illustrations as source footage.

Music: “Cutscene Crush” — Blue Deer Studio (YouTube Audio Library); used in the finished video, not distributed separately.

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