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Moonwalking on the moon

rallain | June 29, 2009

Slate's Explainer has an answer and question post about moonwalking. Here is one of the very good questions answered there. Would it be easier to moonwalk on the moon? The Explainer says "absolutely not" and attributes this to the awkwardness of walking on the moon. The article gives an example of Earthly legs being too powerful as the "astronaut's hop". The explainer also says it is awkward because of the pressurized space suits. I think the problem is almost entirely the pressurized suits. I believe that the astronauts do their moon-hop because it is difficult to bend their legs in the…

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