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this is NASA's space Power facility in Cleveland Ohio and it is the wheel biggest vacuum chamber is used to test spacecraft in the conditions that has a space and it does that by Pompano English chamber until there about two grams left Century Construction how is history in the 1960s as a nuclear test facility to test nuclear propulsion systems and that meant they built it can you make the radiation easier to deal with I'm to concrete skin Wichita radiation shielding and parts an external pressure vessels so this thing can take the force turn on the outside when it's to the conditions events of space Galileo's experiment with simple he took a heavy object and the light one and drop them at the same time to see which fell fastest in this case the feathers fell to the ground that is right in the bowling ball because of air resistance  so you know that the true nature of gravity we have to remove the ad it takes 3 hours to pump at the 800,000 cubic feet to that for the chamber tour in the last 30 minutes but once he's complete as an effective I came inside 6104 manual 10% open station one gopher drop PCV 30-1 pressure set point of 240 PSI we are go for drop 7654 cameras on to blonde release play came down exact of the Sun  will it rain exactly exactly the same brilliant  Isaac Newton would say that the ball and the feather fall what is a force pulling them down gravity  what's Einstein imagine the scene very differently  happiest thoughts life was this the reason the bowling ball feather fall together is because they're not falling been standing still there is no force acting on them so the reason that if you couldn't see the background that be no way of knowing that the ball in the fattest would being accelerated towards the Earth so you can clean it they weren't

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