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Tag: Suits

Posted on October 1, 2021

EVA suits

Maybe I should submit the design of my surface suits…

After years of futility, NASA turns to private sector for spacesuit help
After years of futility, NASA turns to private sector for spacesuit help

"A flight-ready suit remains years away from completion."

Ars Technica Ars Technica

Though, to be fair, my suits are a fictional combination of the ideas of Dava Newman and Kava Manyapu. But I came up with the waste disposal mechanism (capillary action through the compression layer into a pad beneath the outer layer, which can be changed).

Posted on February 15, 2020February 15, 2020

Climbing on Mars

Pacific Spaceflight is field testing ideas for Mars suits.
 
“We bet a lot of early Mars climbing will be like nineteenth-century mountaineering—scrambling/third class/5.0 stuff where robots can’t go, or aid climbing with some crazy rack of tools.”
Rock Climbing on Mars: A Simulation
Rock Climbing on Mars: A Simulation

If you saw an astronaut dry-tooling up a cliff along the Oregon coast last summer and wondered why, the answer was: "testing."

Climbing Climbing

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