Falling feathers and hammers

It is well known that at the end of the Apollo 15 Moon landing, Commander David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather to demonstrate that they would accelerate at the  same rate, and land on the ground together:

What is not so well known, at least I didn’t know, is that this experiment has been repeated on Earth, at a much grander scale, at NASA’s space power facility:

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