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Wonder what it’s like to be on the Moon? #Apollo17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt said:

“Working on the Moon is a lot of fun. It’s like walking around on a giant trampoline all the time and you’re just as strong as you were here on Earth, but you don’t weigh as much.” #Apollo50th
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Smartest thing NASA ever did, putting Jack Schmidt on the moon.
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Watching the moon walkers, I wondered about this. We'd see them bounce about, but always very gingerly, and no one does the great leaps that early SciFi movie astronauts enjoyed.

You do weigh less yet have the same strength, but you also still have the same inertial mass. Wouldn't that cause problems when stopping or turning?

It's like the great spinning space stations. Who would have thought the coriolis effect would pose such a problem?

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