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:" Well, in my left hand, I have a feather ; in my right hand, a hammer.

And I guess one of the reasons we got here today was because of a gentleman named Galileo, a long time ago, who made a rather significant discovery about falling objects in gravity fields.

And we thought where would be a better place to confirm his findings than on the Moon.

And so we thought we'd try it here for you.

The feather happens to be, appropriately, a falcon feather for our Falcon.

And I'll drop the two of them here and, hopefully, they'll hit the ground at the same time.