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This says that the acceleration due to gravity is independent of the mass of the object. On the moon there is no air resistance so both your hammer and feather experience the same amount of acceleration and hit the ground at the same time.

In explaining Einstein’s theory, Cox said, “The reason the bowling ball and the feather fall together is because they’re not falling. They are standing still. “(Einstein) reasoned that if you couldn’t see the background, there would be no of knowing that the ball and the feathers were accelerating toward the Earth.”

Acceleration due to gravity on the moon is 1.6 m/s 2. This means that when you fall, your velocity increases by 1.6 m/s every second. You’ll fall slower than you would on Earth, but your velocity will still increase to fatal speeds. After a ten second fall, you’ll hit the ground at about 60 km/h.

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Elon Musk is still confident that 2026 will be the year that his space company SpaceX lands humans on Mars, where he hopes to build a human settlement. In October, Musk said the space company has a “fighting chance” of sending an uncrewed Starship rocket to Mars in 2024 — two years later than he previously hoped.

NASA director Jim Bridenstine announced that Falcon Heavy is powerful enough to launch the Orion capsule, but cannot launch it on top of the European Service Module in the same flight, and thus Falcon Heavy cannot be used as a replacement for SLS.

The outpost will serve as a docking station for visiting spacecraft, such as NASA’s Orion spacecraft and will orbit the moon, tens of thousands of miles away. It will be a pit stop on the way to the lunar surface.

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