The U.S. spacesuit is a special system that has intrigued and fascinated the world since Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon in 1969. With over 50 years since that momentous achievement, NASA is planning to land the first woman and next man on the Moon in the near future. This goal begets the need to build a new spacesuit, a spacesuit created from the legacy knowledge of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), combined with knowledge gained from technology development over the decades. As NASA transitions to its new horizon, the U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (SKC) Program is poised to help. The SKC Program’s primary function has been to capture, curate, and disseminate spacesuit-related knowledge among scientists, engineers, and technicians. The SKC Program was created in 2007 to capture knowledge primarily from spacesuit subject-matter experts (SMEs) who were retiring from NASA. These SMEs had 30 to 50 years of spacesuit knowledge. Over the years, the SKC Program has evolved and expanded its scope with a current focus on complementing the buildup of the Exploration EMU (xEMU) at the Johnson Space Center. As part of this focus, the SKC Program recently teamed with the xEMU Community of Practice (CoP) for knowledge sharing. The xEMU CoP provides a forum where early career engineers, professionals new to human spaceflight, and the xEMU community can come together regularly to seek guidance, share knowledge, meet their peers, discover resources, and ask questions. The CoP created an environment where the knowledge can be easily and routinely captured and recorded. The recorded events are archived and curated in an SKC Program library and disseminated as appropriate. This paper details the roles that the SKC Program and CoP play in the xEMU buildup, along with the navigation of the creation, curation, and dissemination processes.


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    Title :

    U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture – Creation, Curation, and Dissemination


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    Conference:

    51st International Conference on Environmental Systems ; 2022 ; St. Paul, Minnesota, US


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    Conference paper


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    English




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