Apollo astronauts falling over on the moon - GIF

**Altair** · Apr 10, 2020, 08:27 PM

Footage of Apollo astronauts losing their footing on the lunar surface.

Previously:

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin punching moon conspiracy theorist in face GIF
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) test flight - video
Apollo astronaut survivalist kit and training - photos
Wernher von Braun and the Saturn V - photo

**jdurand** · Apr 11, 2020, 05:44 PM

I once got to put on one of those suits, it was empty of expendables (water and liquid O2 and no helmet) but was STILL really heavy. Lower gravity doesn't change mass, I'd hate to fall over in one of those!

**IntheGroove** · Apr 11, 2020, 06:57 PM

Doing the moonwalk isn't as easy as it looks...

**TrickieDickie** · Apr 11, 2020, 07:24 PM

He bounces back up on his feet quickly

**jdurand** · Apr 12, 2020, 02:05 AM

He's wearing a balloon.

Actually, the arms in the suit would give quite a bit of spring if you land on them. If they were just sleeves on the bladder, when inflated you'd stand there with arms straight out to the sides. You'd have to work to bring one forward.

So, they ran a wire rope from one wrist down across the chest (in a tube, don't want to catch hair, cooling tubes, or wires) and out to the other sleeve. It kept your arms in somewhat of a C. To reach right you pull in your left arm.

If you landed on them you could bend your arms in and then use the air pressure + your muscle to push back off.

**MeJasonT** · Apr 12, 2020, 04:05 AM

So this backs up the theory they went to the moon - He fell over in zero gravity ?
Buzz would be having kittens hearing such a remark - his fists would be up and everything. lets call him Mr Angry.

I strongly support the view they did land on the moon, the story of the lady mathematician certainly puts a more realistic slant on it than the bravado stories of the accomplishment. It was originally thought that leaving the atmosphere you would be subjected to extreme levels of radiation and yet nothing about the Apollo capsule screams radiation protection. The whole project was like throwing yourself off the grand canyon in a soap box car - yeah you can do it but 99.9% of sane people will start to question how, when, why, what. The ten years it took from firing test rockets to building a habitat and planning the landing. The ambition of President Kennedy, would not have been possible without some assistance from a little town near me in the UK. The Anniversary should really have included your partner and friend the UK. without our Rolls Royce/Blue Streak Engineers from Spaseadam, Brampton in the UK the payload would never have got off the ground.
I followed the educational program from the Smithsonian making parts for the door of the capsule with great interest and watched many hours of youtube makers like John Saunders @ NYCCNC doing their part making parts for the Smithsonian display.
You cant help but ask what are they doing about space now. There is a research team working on a satellite being sent to the sun and of course Mars and Saturn missions but no manned missions from any country. Well its nice of the EU to throw the UK out of the European Space Agency for wanting to leave the EU Political partnership. They sent our workers home but wanted to protect workers rights (both sides agreed to do so) but the space workers were sent home - funny that. We are still expected to pay 4 billion our share into the on-going projects many of which were actually our own that we invited the EU to join in on.
The last straw was the EU wanted to centralise Intellectual Property and Copy Right making the EU over all responsible for the Protection and Invention of our countries design and research. I voted to leave with confidence. Covid-19 has certainly brought a certain reality to the whole EU thing. It makes Brexit look a tad irrelevant now. Still we can enjoy looking at images of pissed astronauts falling over in space lol.