[RummyChick]

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

[eartrumpet]

So how is Alex Jones these days?

You certainly have ruined an interesting thread about a great man. Thanks!

[Campion]

Exactly the scene I was thinking of. He's pushing off the surface with his hand; that and the pressure inside his suit easily pops him back to a standing position. No wires needed, and none available, either.

I don't know what's sadder -- that some people believe that the greatest technical achievement in history was faked, or that I spent my childhood in a country that could achieve those incredible things and I face my old age in a country that has fallen so far from those days.