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Given information

It is given that:

Mass of the astronaut is    

He is moving at a constant velocity 

The distance from the center of moon is  

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The acceleration of astronaut is 0 since it is moving with a constant speed. As a result net force on the astronaut is 0

Newtons law for the motion of Astronaut is as follows:

 

which implies:

Normal force:

 

is acceleration due to gravity in moon and is expressed as:

, where  is the mass of the moon and is the distance of Astronaut from the surface of moon  is the universal Gravitational constant  

 

 

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