How do astronauts move on the moon?

Answer 1

The moon has gravity. The amount of gravity is proportional to the mass of an object and (inversely proportional to the) distance from the center of mass. The moon has a mass of about 1/87 that of Earth. However the surface of the moon is much closer to the center of the moon than the surface of Earth to the center of the Earth, the force of gravity is about 1/6 of that on Earth. After trial and error, the astronauts found it easiest to hop or leap instead of walking on the moon. Keeping on foot on the moon all the time was just harder with little gravity of the moon.

Answer 2

The most commonly adopted form of forward locomotion was the "bunny hop". From the Apollo 11 Technical Debrief documents:Armstrong

[...] I ran there and ran back because I didn't want to spend much time doing that, but it was no trouble to make that kind of a trek -- a couple of hundred feet or so. It just took a few minutes to lope back there, take those pictures, and then come back.

Aldrin

I don't think there is such a thing as running. It's a lope and it's very hard to just walk. You break into this lope very soon as you begin to speed up.

Armstrong

I can best describe a lope as having both feet off the ground at the same time, as opposed to walking where you have one foot on the ground at all times. In loping, you leave the ground with both feet and come down with one foot in a normal running fashion. It's not like an earth run here, because you are taking advantage of the low gravity

See the link below for the entirety of the Technical Debrief

Answer 3

People can walk on the moon wearing a specially designed space suit such as NASA used for the Apollo moon missions. The suit contains the environmental conditions necessary and also the weight to offset the weak gravity of the moon.

Answer 4

The astronauts walk like that on the moon because of the gravity.

To best describe what that means you need to know a little physics. All objects with mass, everywhere in the universe (including you) have a gravitational pull. Gravity is the force of attraction of a massive object. The more mass that object has the harder it pulls. The earth pulls on us with an acceleration force of 32 ft/sec2 (for every second something falls towards the earth it accelerates 32 ft/sec. In other words, in the first second of falling you are travelling at 32 ft/sec. In the next second you are falling at 64 ft/sec etc on up until you reach terminal velocity). This means that on earth, the average man weighs 170 lbs.

The moon has a gravitational acceleration force of only about 5.3 ft/sec2, or roughly 1/6th the earth's gravity. As such, the same 170 lb man on earth will weigh only 28 lbs on the moon. Because of this, the astronauts appear to hop around rather than walk on the lunar surface.

Answer 5

The moon also attracts objects towards it.The force of gravity is less on the moon than it is on the earth,so things do not weight that much.

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Answer 6

The Apollo astronauts found it was easier to 'bunny-hop' on the moon as normal walking was difficult due to the moon having gravity that is one-sixth of that on Earth.

Answer 7

Astronauts don't walk in space, they jump.

Answer 8

They use a vehicle on the moon called the Moon Rover.

Answer 9

In a space suttle.