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To: LibWhacker
Charlie Duke tried this on Apollo 16. They wanted to do a "Lunar Olympics" to see how high they could jump, but Mission Control deleted it from their schedule as far too dangerous. John Young did a small 4-foot jump (with his backpack, he weighed over 300 pounds) so of course (and just off camera and WITHOUT authority to do so) Charlie Duke thought he could beat him. So he tried and went up over 4 feet but came down backwards falling on his shoulder and backpack. He thought he was dead because the backpack was somewhat fragile and if anything broke or if the suit caught a rip, he was up **** creek. Video below with great Charlie Duke commentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16D0hmLt-S0

10 posted on 01/07/2017 9:39:20 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's called the "Statue of Liberty" and not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls
Charlie Duke tried this on Apollo 16.

YUP! Charlie Duke did try this, and Mission Control had a fit. I know...I met Charlie many years ago (1980 or so) in Dublin. He had this video and many others that he showed to us. Said Mission Control really called him out on it.

I spent several days with Charlie. And later he stayed with a friend of mine near where I lived in Northern Ireland.

He gave me an autograph in my Bible...Psalm 8 is where he did it...

Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet: Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field; The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, whatever passeth through the paths of the seas. Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

(Psalms 8:1-9)

15 posted on 01/07/2017 10:04:38 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea ((I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders))
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