Galileo's falling-bodies experiment was tested on the Moon.
In 1971 Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a falcon feather together, and with no air they hit the dust at the same instant.
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- 1582 · 1918 In autumn 1582 Catholic Europe jumped from 4 to 15 October, while Yermak’s Cossacks were marching on the capital of the Khanate of Sibir.
- 1582 · 1918 Russia's February 1918 had no 1st to 13th. By decree, Wednesday 31 January was followed by Thursday 14 February — Russia adopting the Gregorian calendar 336 years after Catholic Europe.
- 1586 · 1589 Galileo probably never did his famous Leaning Tower experiment.
- 1586 · 1980 The Tsar Cannon, contrary to the saying, seems to have been fired.
- 1587 · 1588 · 1590 The Roanoke colony may have been lost because of the Spanish Armada.
- 1589 · 1633 Galileo probably never dropped balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.