"The amount of damage might cause to a spacecraft could be an order of magnitude worse than we believed.""The amount of damage might cause to a spacecraft could be an order of magnitude worse than we believed."for the first time in more than 50 years, a new theory suggests that the astronauts taking that giant second step for humanity might be way less safe doing so than anyone realized.
As such, the tiny accelerated rocks that make up Moon dust may be moving at speeds four to ten times faster than scientists previously thought, which would mean that spacesuits and spacecraft would need to have extra reinforcements. Ultimately, it will be up to NASA and the rest of the international spacefaring community to implement the physicist's suggested changes before any of us make it back to the Moon, even as he continues to perfect his equations.
"The amount of damage might cause to a spacecraft," Metzger warned, "could be an order of magnitude worse than we believed."