Lunar Olympics - Astronauts jumping in 1/6 earth gravity

Lunar Olympics - John Young and Charlie Duke jumping in 1/6 gravity.

In his book, Moonwalker, Duke said that, after John did a flat-footed jump, getting about four feet off the surface. "I decided to join in and made a big push off the moon, getting about four feet high. 'Wow!', I exclaimed. But as I straightened up, the weight of my backpack pulled me over backward. Now I was coming down on my back. I tried to correct myself but couldn't, and as my heart filled with fear I fell the four feet, hitting hard - right on my backpack. Panic! The thought that I'd die raced across my mind. It was the only time in our whole lunar stay that I had a real moment of panic and thought I had killed myself. The suit and backpack weren't designed to support a four-foot fall. Had the backpack broken or the suit split open, I would have lost my air. A rapid decompression, or as one friend calls it, a high-altitude hiss-out, and I would have been dead instantly. Fortunately, everything held together."

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• NASA
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• Apollo
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• Young
• Duke
• Astronaut
• jump
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[DEHUCOK]

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i think we got a "little" problem here))))



[TheArmstrong1969]

The best mission of Apollo program :) the John e Charlie show

[pt1gard]

@stalkervision ... check out my post on top of this thread, thanks to LT, I found this joke of a clip and debunked it with 2 clips of my own.

[pt1gard]

they hang suspended, people ... thats impossible, whats that tell you? Wires possibly? ... how about all times the nauts fall and dont worry about it? such as these examples....

1. hammer on nauts foot, hey no prob, no one's worried about puncture and death!!!

watch?v=GmcTYq8Xh7k

2. nauts goes down hard, hey no prob! bounce up, don't even inspect your uni!

watch?v=IbYUj1L2J-0

[1978Ivanov]

40 лет не было этого клипа, а тут появился как по заказу, целых 43 секунды сняли. Интересно на чем они там прыгают, на батуте что ли? А что там на заднем плане? Гора что ли? По моему возле горы прилунился Аполлон-15.

[jahajahaga]

@stalkervision Oh, and by the way, take a look at the jump on 0:15 - based on his helmet I would estimate the height of that jump to be around 80 centimeters, and the time it takes for him to land is 1,0 seconds.

This means that g in the formula g = 2h / t² should equal somewhere close to 1,62, which is the moon's gravitational acceleration; so let's try that --- g = 2*0,80 / 1,0² = 1,6.

Would you look at that?! Even MATH supports the moon landing footage!

[jahajahaga]

@stalkervision Okay, and what about 10-20 years later from now? When they will most likely have made a telescope that can actually show the lunar lander in detail?

Do you seriously think that NASA are just sitting around hoping that nobody will ever "find out they were lying" and somehow manage to play extremely calm the whole time?

And how do you explain the pitch-black sky depsite great sunshine?

Or the absence of heat waves?

[Laurelindo]

@stalkervision Then why the hell would NASA perform these high jumps in front of live cameras and for the whole world AND release it for all the world to see if it was so "bogus"?

Anyone interested in physics could've pointed it out anytime!

You also need to explain what exactly NASA would earn from "faking" a moon landing and feeling proud of it if it would be found out in the near future, with powerful enough telescopes, that "there's no lunar lander" on the moon anyway.

[Laurelindo]

@stalkervision When they did the "jump salute" they were only intending to make a salute while jumping, and they still managed to get 1,3 feet up in the air, which is impossible on Earth if you weigh around 360-380 pounds.

In this video they use all their force to jump as high as possible; this is like making a regular jump on Earth and then suddenly trying to jump as high as you can.