Technology is available to produce space suits providing a quick-reaction, safe, much more mobile extravehicular activity (EVA) capability than before. Such a capability may be needed during the shuttle era because the great variety of missions and payloads complicates the development of totally automated methods of conducting operations and maintenance and resolving contingencies. Routine EVA now promises to become a cost-effective tool as less complex, serviceable, lower-cost payload designs utilizing this capability become feasible. Adoption of certain advanced space suit technologies is encouraged for reasons of economics as well as performance.
Benefits of advanced space suits for supporting routine extravehicular activity
Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems ; 1975 ; San Francisco, CA
1975-07-01
Conference paper
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English
Benefits of advanced space suits for supporting routine extravehicular activity
Tema Archive | 1975
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