What would happen if you step out of a spaceship onto the moon's surface with no spacesuit?

Answer 1

Once again, the idiots here can only reply from their knowledge of science FICTION and incorrect assumptions about "the bends" that plague deep sea divers.

YOU DO NOT EXPLODE!
YOU DO NOT FREEZE INSTANTLY!
YOUR BLOOD DOES NOT BOIL INSTANTLY!
YOU DO NOT LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS IMMEDIATELY!

NASA has written a report on this PLUS we have first-hand evidence both from animal experiments and the two Soviet cosmonauts who died when their Soyez capsule suffered catastrophic loss of air pressure when they undocked from their space station.

In fact, the only movie ever to portray this scenario somewhat accurately was 2001: A Space Odyssey when Bowman leaves his pod without a helmet to reenter the bigger spaceship. The NASA report indicates that a person would lose consciousness within 10-20 seconds but that you could actually survive exposure to the vacuum of space for 60 to 90 seconds provided you are immediately returned to normal pressure.

Answer 2

Hello,

Gravity doesn't exist on the moon hence the reason why objects float away into space if not tied down to anything, so if you was to not wear a spacesuit then you too would float away.

You also would die due to there being no oxygen on the moon.

Heres some information ive found for you which will answer your question more throughly.

TEMPERTURE
You need a suit to protect you from the moons temperture.
The temperature of the Moon during the day is hotter than the day time temperature on Earth. If you were camping on the Moon, you could use the Sun's heat to cook your food. You could even boil water since t he temperature on the Moon at noon is above the boiling point of water (100 degrees Celsius). If you were to spend the night on the Moon (you might as well because it's a long trip home to Earth), you'd have to have a warm sleeping bag, because temperatures reach a low of -173 degrees Celsius! An average winter on Earth might bring temperatures of 5 degrees Celsius so -173 degrees is really cold!

GRAVITY
The force of gravity is proportional to the mass of interacting objects and inversely proportional to the distance between them. So, to answer your question, the Moon, as any other object, has gravity, but because of its smaller size, the Moon's gravity is one-sixth of the Earth's gravity. Objects travel further than they do on earth.

SOLAR FLARES
"The Moon is totally exposed to solar flares," t has no atmosphere or magnetic field to deflect radiation." Protons rushing at the Moon simply hit the ground--or whoever might be walking around outside. The Jan. 20th proton storm was by some measures the biggest since 1989. It was particularly rich in high-speed protons packing more than 100 million electron volts (100 MeV) of energy. Such protons can burrow through 11 centimeters of water. A thin-skinned spacesuit would have offered little resistance. SO IMAGINE NOT HAVING A SUIT ON.

OXYGEN
There is no oxygen / air to breathe on the Moon. So without your spacesuit which is supplying you with oxygen you will suffocate to your death.

Answer 3

You would try to get back inside as fast as you could before the Moon environment killed you.
The temperature would depend on your location and whether it was a moon day or night. Because there is no atmospheric pressure anywhere, the most immediate effect would always be on your ears as the ear drums burst. Then immediately in the lungs as the small air sacks would burst. Whatever moisture was in your lungs , throat , mouth and sinuses would freeze due to rapid evaporation. The lack of pressure would also allow the gasses dissolved in your blood to begin to fizz like a dropped Pepsi. This would also occur first in the inner ears leading into the brain and in and lungs and within a minute or so in all of the body including the heart and then the rest of the brain. You would very quickly become a very unhappy explorer and then you would be dead from direct brain damage before the slower asphyxiation got you.
The body would not explode because there is not that much gas dissolved in the blood. However, it would swell, especially the abdomen. The skull might crack.
Your eventually dehydrated /mummified carcass would bake in the +100deg C heat during the (half month-long) day and freeze in the -173 deg C cold during the (half month-long) night
Your friends could zoom-in to visit you using Google Moon.

Answer 4

You would not explode or implode. The spaceship you travel on is kept at about 8 PSI. The difference between 8 and 0 is not that great. It would suck the air from you lungs, but you would not explode. If you were in the bright spots on the moon, then you would burn up. Sunlight on the moon can be 200 degrees. The shadows can be far below -100. But the other people were right that the lack of oxygen would get to you.
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Answer 5

You would never be able to take the first step onto the
surface of the Moon. Before you did that you would have exploded from the depressurization inside the space lock. That is a small chamber which has two doors. One door faces to outer space, and one door faces toward the interior of the space ship. Atmospheric pressure inside the "lock" or chamber must be reduced (vented) until it equals the pressure outside (zero pressure) before the door to outer space can be opened. And, like I said, you would never make it through that process. our bodies are normally used to being subjected to an atmospheric pressure of about 14 pounds per square inch. On the Moon there is Zero atmospheric pressure.So, all of your insides would rather suddenly expand way past the bursting point and you would be dead in an instant. i do not think it would be a pretty sight.

Answer 6

You would look like everyone else that runs out of the house on a winter morning to get the paper: you'd run down the lunar module stairs, tiptoe over to the paper, get it fast, run back fast, take a quick look at the sunrise and stars, then run back in and shut off the audible alarm ("danger, danger Will Robinson")

Answer 7

You would die of oxygen deprivation. There is no atmosphere on the moon, no oxygen that your body can use. So, your lungs will try to fill in the gaps with nothing, you will try to breathe but you will not be able to. Kind like drowning.

Answer 8

already, neil armstrong stepped directly to the moon s' floor. .yet, as quickly as I stepped on the exterior, i prayed god ,to view some human beings who got here to examine the exterior of moon

Answer 9

You would explode. The pressure from the air in your lungs would force itself outwards due to the vacuum on the moon. If, for some magical reason, you managed not to explode, you would die of lack of oxygen.

Answer 10

You'd never make it past opening the door. As soon as you cracked the door open all the oxygen would escape. Within few seconds you'd be dead. I think implode is the term.