87. What is it like to jump? How high can a person jump on the Moon? How high could a person jump on a pogo stick on the Moon!? (A K2S Question)

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With a spacesuit on, jumping is going to be a bit difficult, and very dangerous if you come down wrong. From a straight physics standpoint, the average adult can jump about 1.5 feet into the air from a standstill here on Earth. On the Moon that would be about ten feet or about seven times as high. What's disorienting is that, because of the lower gravity, while less than a second is spent in the air here on Earth, a full three and a half seconds would be spent in the air on the Moon. A pogo stick would allow for much higher and longer jumps. Flips and twirls become a possibility. A trampoline set up inside a very large dome will allow individuals to jump very high and do many spins and flips while floating down.

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Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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