October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... core of the data processing lies the Suit Computer Assembly (SCA), a centralised location for all the spacesuit avionics, including biomonitoring and gesture control. Space Applications Services A version of the same system, modified to be lighter...
February 2018
Journey of inspiration
...space and art! Meeting up with Kim Poor at Spacefest. Spacesuit Art Project My own art has certainly been a big part...an even more meaningful mission. One of these projects is the Spacesuit Art Project. I’ve shared some details about this project in an...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... and the visual arts. Midnight on the Moon Dress - Investigations in Boulby Mine muted light conditions relating to spacesuit technology, darkness and muted vision. Size 2.0m high x 4.0m long x 1.0m wide In the 21st century, this extends to space...
06 July 2018
ESA investigates health risk of living on the Moon
...it? Moon dust. The moon dust that had clung to the spacesuits of all 12 people who have stepped on the lunar surface ... the caustic effect of the dust also ate away layers of spacesuit boots and destroyed the vacuum seals of Apollo sample containers. ...
June 2018
Striding through space
... been reproduced on everything from books and advertisements to ice cream wrappers and album covers NASA’s new spacesuit represented an advance on the designs used earlier for moonwalks and spacewalks. As well as providing consumables for the...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
...now paid to the composition and protection offered by spacesuits. Individual susceptibility is not only important for astronauts ... astronauts will have to do many more so new spacesuits will need to be resilient and resistant to abrasion of ...
