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re: Testing moonlike gravity

I depends on what you define as a problem. Sure the astronauts could fall frequently and not be immediately harmed in an A7LB spacesuit. Dust got places it might not of (the zipper between the PLSS and on the back of the Pressure Suit), but you didn't skin your knee.

Anyway, I was talking of the heady problem of friction and mass.

You have less weight on the Moon but continue to have your mass.

This leads to a lack of cohesion with floors and thus not having as much traction as you are trained to expect by billions of years.

You fall in an ordinary set of coveralls on to a rough floor (sandpaper) inside a station on the Moon and garnets will tear though your fabric and flesh.

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