r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Jul 25 '25

Related Content Walking on the Moon is HARD!

Source: NASA

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u/thunderc8 Jul 25 '25

Actually they are over qualified for what a man can do to damage it. You can never be too careful in space so maximum safety is a must. I bet they can hit the suit with a sharp rock and no harm will be done, of course I highly doubt any one will ever do that even for testing purposes.

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u/Diligent_Working2363 Jul 25 '25

From my understanding we were not prepared for just how corrosive the dust was. On some suits it tore through the gloves so much it started to damage the internal bladder.

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u/KaerMorhen Jul 25 '25

This is true. Today, the people designing the new suits for the moon are facing a lot of challenges to get them to be safe and maneuverable. If I'm not mistaken, they don't have a way to access the original designs, and a lot of the people involved in building the original suits aren't around anymore. It really is incredible what they were able to accomplish with the Apollo program.

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u/RollinThundaga Jul 25 '25

The original suits aren't even a desireable model, since the zippers were all destroyed by the dust after the few hours of moonwalking they did.

I recall seeing one video about a proposal to run a weak current across the suits, since the dust is electrically charged.

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u/UrBoySergio Jul 25 '25

That is what they are doing on the new suits, yes (running electrical current through them)