Flight of the Orange Astronauts

…extraordinary television…
As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize
there’s a fundamental truth to our nature: Man must explore
Dave, an extraordinary television picture here
Dave, an extraordinary television…
Very little dust
40 feet, going down at 3
Stand by for touchdown
Stand by
25 feet, down at 2. Fuel’s good
20 feet
Going down at 2. 10 feet
Stop, push. Engine stop; Engine Arm; Proceed; Command Override, Off
Contact
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 the gentleman
named Galileo a long time ago, who made a rather significant discovery about
falling objects in gravity fields; and we thought that — 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. And I’ll drop the two of them here and, hopefully,
they’ll hit the ground at the same time
How 'bout that? Mr. Galileo was correct