19 August 2016
It's a Lovely Day for a Spacewalk: New IDA Installation Nears Completion
...Leonov spent twelve minutes outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. The longest EVA to date was done by STS- 102 crew members Susan ...Russian astronaut Anatoly Solovyev currently holds the record for most EVAs – sixteen times, with a total time of eighty-two...
June 2018
Striding through space
... requirement for a similar device for extra vehicular activity (EVA) work, McCandless was well placed to help manufacturer Martin... moonwalks and spacewalks. As well as providing consumables for the EVA, it offered a solid base to attach the MMU, which...
December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
... pilot, captured this all encompassing panorama at the end of EVA-2. On the far left the upside-down tripod object is ... lunar rover and the more distant lunar module. This Apollo 15 EVA-2 panorama gives a great view of the immediate landing site, with...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... necessary to either reduce the weight of future suits or develop specific devices to support the astronaut during long EVAs. To be able to conduct sampling of loose soil or smaller rocks, two different tools were developed by LIQUIFER Systems Group...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
...performing complex tasks, so a high level of training is one of the keys for success. The best environment for EVA training on Earth is underwater, because it provides a neutral buoyancy, simulating microgravity, and so EAC built the Neutral Buoyancy...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... 17. This is very different to what we are preparing for in terms of a future lunar base where it is foreseen to have hours of EVA exploration in the extreme and in difficult lunar environment. To date, no astronaut has ever performed more than three...
