28-November-2002, 02:11 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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On 2002-11-28 08:04, Glom wrote:
(3) Although they were apparently operating under one-sixth gravity (and should therefore have been able to jump six times as high as on Earth) there is no film showing them doing this. According to NASA, their backpacks and suits increased their weight so much that their overall weight was only twice that on Earth. Unless the backpacks were full of lead, this seems unlikely. In fact, there is no evidence that they could jump even twice as high as on Earth.
Actually, they could jump over one metre to the third rung on the ladder. However, when they jumped, they had a tendancy to topple over.
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Neil Armstrong jumped to the third rung. Wade Frazier discuss the feat HERE
"Regarding the lack of athletic feats performed on the moon, I lamented that although Neil Armstrong said that he leapt up to the third stair of the LM when leaving the lunar surface, the best visual record we had was Young’s mundane jump-salute.[64] Jay Windley replied that it might have been possible to see Armstrong’s leap in the film. I got the footage, looked at it, and Jay was right. I still find it amazing the footage of Armstrong’s leap was never mentioned in all the long years of debates. I must have seen it live in 1969, as did many millions of other people, but it was a forgotten feat. This evidence sealed it for me. Neil Armstrong performed that leap on the moon."
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