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Falling on the Moon

While trying to take a core sample of the Moon, Jack Schmitt stumbles, falls, and sprays lunar dust. In his defense, the lunar EVA suits made balancing quite a challenge in the 1/6g environment.



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Bunny hopping on the Moon

Gene Cernan bunny hops down a slope on the lunar surface during Apollo 17. Gene claimed that this was the fasted way to move around on slopes. You can hear hear Jack Schmitt saying that he doesn't like the hoping method.



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Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program. It was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the sixth and final lunar landing mission of the Apollo program. The mission was launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, and concluded on December 19.
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