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Self-Supporting Space Suit Makes It Hard to Bend

During this scene from the Apollo 16 mission, astronaut Charles Duke drops a hammer on the lunar surface and has a tough time picking it up. To overcome the self-support of the space suit, he has to jump repeatedly in order to compress the suit's knee joint and pick up the hammer.

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Uploaded by: ( Send Message ) on 28-08-2009.

Duration: 0m 52s