In carrying out NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, a number of different environments will be encountered that will require the crew to wear a protective space suit. Specifically, four suited mission phases are identified as Launch, Entry & Abort profiles, Contingency 0g (orbital) Extravehicular Activity (EVA), Lunar Surface EVA and Martian Surface EVA. This study presents conceptual design solutions based on a previous architecture assessment that defined space suit operational requirements for four proposed space suit configuration options. In addition, a subset of vehicle interface requirements are defined for enabling umbilical and physical connections between the suits and the various Constellation spacecraft in which they will be used. A summary of the resultant suit and component concepts and vehicle interface definitions is presented. This work was conducted during the fall semester of 2006 as part of a graduate aerospace engineering design class at the University of Colorado.


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    Title :

    Space Suit Concepts and Vehicle Interfaces for the Constellation Program


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:
    Gustafson, A. (author) / Wright, C. (author) / Baca, D. (author) / Massey, D. (author) / Klaus,, D. M. (author) / Gauthier, E. (author) / Metts, J. (author) / Eberhart, K. (author) / Oryshchyn, L. (author) / Mesloh, M. (author)

    Conference:

    International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2007



    Publication date :

    2007-07-09




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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