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Do you remember when they were tooling around in the moon car and they were spinning their wheels while the dirt was flying up making a rooster tail? Well that dirt didn't fly up very high and it didn't stay up in the air. It came down really quick and according to statistics, dust in one-sixth Earth gravity atmosphere (in fact an atmosphere only two percent as dense as earth's atmosphere) should still be floating
around somewhere shouldn't it? But it didn't.
How are we going to explain this? How does NASA explain it? Very simply: They don't, they can't, they never could, and they never will.
Quite a number of professional athletes can jump over three feet off the ground when they are stretched out such as in a basketball layup. These athletes are the exception,
but an average man in good condition can easily manage 18 inches in a standing vertical jump. Try it in your living room. Try it right now. I don't care how much you weigh, if you can't reach 18 inches there's something really seriously wrong.
It can be assumed that the astronauts were capable of attaining this on earth with a moderate effort, especially considering the rigorous training in the physical condition which they were expected to maintain, and in fact if they did not maintain that certain
specific physical conditioning they would not have been allowed to make
their “flight”. This is crystal clear logic. Since John Young's vertical jumping during the Apollo 16 mission has been observed on film many times by all of you and by me,
the question of space suit mobility and height attained can be discussed because we've all seen it.
