Over the past two years, the High Performance EVA Glove (HPEG) project under NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) funded an effort to develop an electromechanically-assisted space suit glove. The project was ...

For the first time in more than 30 years, an advanced space suit Portable Life Support System (PLSS) design was operated inside a vacuum chamber representative of the flight operating environment. The test article, PLSS ...

Human Mars exploration will result in a demand for extravehicular activity one or two orders of magnitude beyond prior peak rates, occurring at the end of a 26-month logistics cycle. The extensive fabric “soft goods” of ...

The Z-2 space suit is the product of the last fifty years of NASA’s space suit research and testing experience. The suit was originally built as a prototype exploration space suit to evaluate advances in suit design and ...

NASA has plans to go back to the Moon. In order to do this, a new spacesuit is being designed for microgravity, cislunar, and lunar surface exploration. The design for the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) ...

Multiple organizations within NASA as well as industry and academia fund and participate in research related to extravehicular activity (EVA). In October 2015, representatives of the EVA Office, the Crew and Thermal Systems ...

Trace film-forming organic contaminants in water have historically been shown to adversely impact EMU (Extravehicular Mobility Unit) Sublimator performance. EMU feed-water quality requirements and strict controls over ...

Following Z-2 space suit testing that occurred from 2016-2017, the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) Project was tasked with building a demonstration unit of the xEMU space suit to test on the International ...

Astronauts frequently suffer from orthostatic intolerance (OI) when returning to earth. Conventional wearable interventions for treating or preventing OI exhibit limited controllability (in elastic stockings) or limited ...

NASA seeks a validated, standardized methodology for measuring the inspired carbon dioxide gas (CO2) in Extravehicular Activity (EVA) and Launch, Entry, Abort (LEA) pressure suits to verify that ventilation designs maintain ...