What will happen to a person if they left a spaceship to walk on the moon without a space suit?

Answer 1

You would have a few very uncomfortable moments to "enjoy" before you froze and/or boiled. The lack of atmosphere would cause you to lose concsiousness very rapidly, even if you could somehow be protected from the bitter (-200 or worse) cold in the shade, or boiling temperatures in the light. Radiation would give you probably the worst sunburn ever, but it wouldn't matter - by then, you're dead.

Answer 2

If a person left the spaceship to walk on the moon with out a space suit, a couple of thing would happen depending on the time but they all lead to the death of the Astronaut. First off they would explode leaving a big mess of floting debri. This is due to the face that space is not pressurised. The presure inside the body would be so much greater then the lack of pressure outside the body that it would push on the body inside causing the body to explode. Kind of like when you squish an inflated baloon and it pops. That is what happesn but from the inside. The inner pressure is so much greater then the outer pressure.

Answer 3

Since outer space is a near-vacum, a similar, but much more severe thing would happen as it does to divers who come back to the surface too quickly after being at higher-pressure depths. When divers go deep, they use nitrogen to add extra pressure to the air they're breathing in order to balance the increased ambient water pressure. This extra nitrogen dissolves in the bloodstream at the higher pressure, and if you depressurize too quickly, then it bubbles out of the blood like a soda when you shake it up.

So in a very real sense - stepping out of the space ship without a suit would make your blood boil. This would be what you died from, but even if you didn't, other things would kill you. You would suffocate from there being no air to breathe. You would be burned to a crisp by being unprotected from harmful solar radiation. The hot surface of the moon would burn you as well. Space and the lunar surface are very hostile environments, and you wouldn't survive very long at all without a protective suit.

Answer 4

They would probably blow up like an overinflated balloon because the lack of air pressure would cause a body to expand out. They'd never know what happened to them because it would happen so fast.

Answer 5

They would die within a matter of seconds. Very painful seconds ☺

Doug

Answer 6

he will 'pop' as theres no external pressure and the internal blood pressure is there

Answer 7

you would check into Death's office and he would accept your appointment

Answer 8

That person would soon be dead.

Answer 9

Simple: no atmosphere = death.