NASA wants to end lunar faceplants by giving astronauts extra robot limbs

Image caption: Inertia is the same, but gravity is 1/6th… It’s hard to walk on the Moon without making a clown of yourself! Image credit: NASA. Article by Loz Blain. New Atlas – May 17, 2024. Source: MIT.

It’s a genuine joy watching Apollo-era astronauts bounce around on the lunar surface, and it’s hysterically funny watching them fall over and struggle to get back up in their spacesuits. MIT wishes to rob us of this hilarity for future missions. […]

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