2023-06-152023-06-152023-07-16ICES-2023-37https://hdl.handle.net/2346/94489Robert J. Jones, Redwire / KBR HHPC / NASA Johnson Space Center(JSC), USAMorgan Abney, NASA Engineering and Safety Center, USATim Brady, NASA Engineering and Safety Center, USARichard Rhodes, NASA Johnson Space Center(JSC), USAShane McFarland, Aegis Aerospace / KBR HHPC / NASA Johnson Space Center(JSC), USAJoe Settles, Jacobs / NASA Johnson Space Center(JSC), USAChanel Stephens, Jacobs / NASA Johnson Space Center(JSC), USADrew Hoyle, Jacobs / NASA Johnson Space Center(JSC), USAAndrew Funk, Wells Lamont Industrial, USAStephanie Rodgers, Textile Made, Inc., USAICES400: Extravehicular Activity: Space SuitsThe 52nd International Conference on Environmental Systems was held in Calgary, Canada, on 16 July 2023 through 20 July 2023.The Artemis space suit glove environmental protection garment (EPG) will be the first line of protection used to shield the crewmember’s hands from the environments encountered during extravehicular activity (EVA). As the Artemis missions will include more extreme environments than those experienced on the International Space Station, development, verification, and validation of gloves poses three key challenges. First, there are no standardized tests defined to evaluate the durability of space suit gloves for the extreme lunar environments, particularly the permanently shadowed regions. Second, there is insufficient data on state-of-the-art glove performance in a lunar environment from which to compare new designs. Third, current ISS glove Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment (TMG) fabrics are unlikely to be sufficient to meet Lunar requirements. It is therefore necessary to define tests to evaluate if gloves can meet new, challenging requirements. This paper focuses on the development of a test procedure to characterize lunar EVA glove fabrics using ASTM standardized test methods and the design and validation of a new standardized test procedure for comparing abrasion resistance between fabrics in lunar-like conditions. The results of testing on twelve candidate EVA glove fabrics are presented.application/pdfengEVAspace suitgloveglovestestingPresentations