Next step in development of space suits is Apollo Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), comprising advanced extra-vehicular-suit and more extensive portable life support system (PLSS) than Gemini will carry; description of E-suit in its Gemini form and tabulation of space suit mission requirements; two possible approaches to achieve mobility are to mobilize joints alone and restrain rest of body area, or to provide degree of flexibility throughout body; concept of 12-jet modular maneuvering unit.
Space suit
Space/Aeronautics
Space/Aeronautics ; 43 , n 6
1965
7 pages
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
NTIS | 1994
NTRS | 1973
|NTIS | 1973
|NTIS | 1994