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I hope so.

However, if they see something that would be noisy on the Earth, but in space, like a rocket firing, they would not hear it in space, because sound needs a medium to travel through, like air. There is no air in space, it is mostly a vacuum. So the only sounds an astronaut should hear are his radio, his breathing and anything tapping on his helmet (the air in the helmet will transmit sound waves to his ears).

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There is no air on the Moon to conduct sound, so no. If you are asking if they could hear their own engine while they were inside the LM, they probably could to some extent. But since they used noise-canceling microphones, you can't hear the engine on the tapes. Mostly what they would be hearing is pumps running, etc. The actual rocket sound would be silent as there was no air to conduct the sound up to the astronauts.

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