December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... including life support, extra-vehicular activity (EVA) and rendezvous, docking and integrated vehicle attitude...collect and secure samples from the asteroid through multi-hour EVAs, or spacewalks, before returning the samples to Earth. These...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
.... For free-roaming exploration in this environment, the Excursion System allows suited crew to perform extravehicular activities (EVAs) with a Spider Flyer/Walker. This system is devised to allow scientist/astronaut crew to interact directly with the...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
...board the ISS cannot communicate in a hospital or industrial plant setting without having the communications components redesigned. EVA (spacewalk) gloves are one of the most challenging pieces of the spacesuit to design, and could incorporate sensor...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
...10003, one of many collected by Armstrong and Aldrin during their EVA and the first to be photographed in detail in the Lunar ... photo exists of Armstrong’s time as ‘First Man’ during the EVA on the Sea of Tranquillity, but he never appeared to have...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... actually put them outside! During my stay, there were three EVAs (extra-vehicular activity) or spacewalks, so my colleagues Butch and... outside three times. We found that the best way to train for EVAs on Earth is to be in a pool, under water - it’s ...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
.... In general, short-duration human extra vehicular activities (EVA) of a few hours at a time outside of the...an artificial habitat, with relatively few opportunities to go outside on EVA, the habitat itself would need to be designed with safety and...
