Pressurized suits and 1/6th g lunar gravity. RummyChick, suppose you weigh 120 lbs. Now I work some magic and you have muscles built to work a 120 lb body on a body that only weighs 20 lbs (!). Then I put you into a suit that’s basically a balloon — stiff, like being inside a inflatable toy. You’d easily spring up from a kneeling posture; you might find it harder to get into the kneeling posture in the first place.
Look at the 2 minute mark and see if this is what you are talking about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRbExDjvhpc
I don’t know anything about the rest of the stuff that guy is talking about but I did find the incident at the 2 minute mark to be interesting.
Not paying much attention to Space Travel..I always assumed they were tethered in some kind of way to the ship