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A Moonwalking spacesuit weighed about 127 kilograms
On the Moon it pressed down with only about a fifth of that The Apollo suit carried oxygen, cooling water, communications and a pressure garment with several layers. Lunar gravity is one sixth of Earth's, so the load on the wearer dropped to roughly 21 kilograms. The suit had to flex at the joints without ballooning stiff. It sits in Mondo's space collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A Moonwalking spacesuit weighed about 127 kilograms: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- On the Moon it pressed down with only about a fifth of that. The figure is taken from Smithsonian, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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