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Item Exploring the Moon: Preserving the Legacy Through Spacesuit Knowledge Capture and Strategic Communication(2024 International Conference on Environmnetal Systems, 2024-07-21) Chullen, Cinda; Hall, Timothy; Oliva, Vladenka R.; Andrews, Gordon M.; Rodgers, Diana L.; Krenzel, Jessica; Nuhfer, ZoeNASA is returning to the Moon to stay. To establish a sustained lunar presence, astronauts will pack spacesuits, surface-mobility tools, rovers, and decades' worth of knowledge. The U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (SKC) and Strategic Communications (Strat Comm) team is specialized in capturing, preserving, and sharing space-related knowledge with NASA scientists, technicians, engineers, vendors, and the public to support space exploration. Since the SKC Program's 2007 inception, its focus has been to capture and share valuable spacesuit-related knowledge with the NASA community. As the program evolved, its notoriety, funding, scope, and staffing expanded from a one-person, part-time, unfunded operation to a small-team, funded entity. Currently, this team has been formulated with a diverse skillset to meet the requirements of its stakeholders. The SKC and Strat Comm team has used its skills to produce over 260 recorded knowledge captures of subject-matter experts (SMEs) and photoshoots. These knowledge captures are in the form of photographs, lectures, workshops, vignettes, videos, and interviews containing essential space-related knowledge. To help educate the space community and public, this trove of information (e.g., videos of world-class facilities, photographs, and SME lectures), produced inside NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), can be obtained through various sources. During Fiscal Year 2024, the SKC and Strat Comm team will focus on several initiatives. Examples of initiatives include the following: 1) share lessons learned during NASA's internal venues such as Safety & Health Day and Day of Remembrance; 2) share knowledge with the public, educators, and students through a media production titled Exploring the Moon; and 3) highlight NASA's unique capabilities and space experts in a video series titled "What's Behind This Door?" This paper discusses the program's approach, unique capture capability, initiatives, and much more.Item U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture Accomplishments in Fiscal Year 2014(45th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2015-07-12) Chullen, Cinda; Oliva, Vladenka R.Since its 2007 inception, the NASA U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (SKC) Program has shared historical spacesuit information with engineers and other technical team members to expand their understanding of the spacesuit’s evolution, known capability and limitations, and future desires and needs for its use. As part of the SKC Program, subject- matter experts have delivered presentations, held workshops, and participated in interviews to share valuable spacesuit lessons learned to ensure this vital information will survive for existing and future generations to use. These events have included spacesuit knowledge from the inception of NASA’s first spacesuit to current spacesuit design. To ensure that this information is shared with the entire NASA community and other interested or invested entities, these SKC events were digitally recorded and transcribed to be uploaded onto several applicable NASA Web sites. This paper discusses the various Web sites to which the SKC events are uploaded and possible future sites that will channel this information.Item U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture Accomplishments in Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013(44th International Conference on Environmental Systems, 2014-07-13) Chullen, Cinda; Oliva, Vladenka R.The NASA U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (KC) program has existed since the beginning of 2008. The program was designed to share historical spacesuit information with engineers and other technical team members to augment their understanding of the spacesuit, its evolution, its limitations, and its capabilities. More than 65 seminars have captured spacesuit history and knowledge over the last six years of the program’s existence. Subject-matter experts have provided lectures and some were interviewed to help bring the spacesuit to life to ensure lessons learned will never be lost. Also, the program concentrated on reaching out to the public and industry by making the recorded events part of the public domain through the NASA technical library’s YouTube site. The U.S. Spacesuit KC topics have included lessons learned from some of the most prominent spacesuit experts and spacesuit users including current and former astronauts. The events have enriched the spacesuit legacy knowledge from Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and International Space Station programs. Also, expert engineers and scientists have shared their challenges and successes to be remembered. Based on evidence by the thousands of people who have viewed the recordings online, the last few years have been some of the most successful years of the U.S. Spacesuit KC program’s life with numerous digital recordings and public releases. This paper reviews the events accomplished and archived over Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013 and highlights two of the most memorable ones. This paper also communicates ways to access the events that are available internally on the NASA domain, as well as those released on the public domain, and it documents the future outlook for KC.