The Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) is an independent anthropomorphic spacesuit that provides environmental protection, mobility, life support, and...
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Space Notes Apollo Extravehicular mobility unit. Volume 1: System description – 1971 (PDF document) Apollo Extravehicular mobility unit. Volume 2: Operational...
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missions. The names for both the Apollo and Skylab space suits were Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU). The Apollo EMUs consisted of a Pressure Suit Assembly...
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Hybrid suits have hard-shell parts and fabric parts. NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) uses a fiberglass Hard Upper Torso (HUT) and fabric limbs...
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fit over the life-support system backpack of the Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU). When carried into space, the MMU was stowed in a support...
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the extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) of astronauts. Current Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) designs take this and other issues into consideration,...
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mission during which a Extravehicular activity was conducted, and hence was the first in which the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) was used. STS-6 was...
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rescue capability. SAFER is worn by every ISS crewmember using an Extravehicular Mobility Unit. SAFER was co-invented by former astronauts Joseph Kerwin, Paul...
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Space Station. Quest was designed to host spacewalks with both Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits and Orlan space suits. The airlock was launched...
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approximately 2,000 BTU/h (590 W) The LCVG used with NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit is primarily constructed of spandex, with a nylon tricot liner...
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technology education. The Apollo lunar EVA suit was called the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU). Besides the pressure suit, this included the Portable...
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wore when he first walked on the Moon, and also worked on later Extravehicular Mobility Unit suits for astronauts in the Space Shuttle program. Allen worked...
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module. The fabric cap worn by NASA astronauts as part of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit is known as a "Snoopy cap", a reference to how the white crown...
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extra-vehicular activity (EVA) space suits being developed in the Advanced Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AEMU) project under NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems (AES)...
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has been used for the Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment on the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (in conjunction with Kevlar and Gore-Tex) and ACES pressure suit...
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clear tears from his eye by wiggling down far enough in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit to use the Valsalva device in his suit as a sponge to clear up...
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NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit Vitruvian Spaceman patch (Space Shuttle version, with three stars representing NASA's human spaceflight programs)...
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types of space suit revealed in October 2019: the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), and the Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS). On 10 August...
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Expedition 63 (section Extravehicular activity)
of time, Anatoli Ivanishin carried out training on American Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits. In the unlikely event that an unscheduled EVA...
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(1980–1982); astronaut office representative for Extravehicular Mobility Unit (spacesuit) and Extravehicular Activity (EVA) procedures and development, including...
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355. "STS-37 Space Shuttle Mission Report May 1991 – NASA-CR-193062", Extravehicular Activity Evaluation, Page 16, accessed online 4 Jan 2011 "Damage suffered...
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designed and manufactured the Space Suit Assembly portion of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) developed by Collins Aerospace, worn by astronauts during...
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Laboratory (NBL), passed evaluations which included using the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), maintenance of the International Space Station, the Incapacitated...
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(November 1975). "Apollo Experience Report – Development of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit" (PDF). NASA Technical Note. TN D-8093: 22–25. Archived (PDF)...
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Gemini 4 used the Ventilation Control Module (VCM), for Gemini 8-12 the Extravehicular Life Support System (ELSS) was used. The ELSS was also designed to optionally...
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testified that she did not wear these diapers during her trip. Extravehicular Mobility Unit Michael Barratt; Sam L. Pool (2008). Principles of Clinical Medicine...
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of several space suits, notably Roscosmos' Orlan and NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU). The fiberglass HUT forms a rigid enclosure about the upper...
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suit during launch, trans-lunar injection, lunar ascent/descent, and extravehicular activity. Mercury and Gemini crews wore their space suits for the duration...
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used as one of the layers in the softgoods structure of NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (spacesuit) designed and manufactured by ILC Dover and was the...
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Apollo 9 (category Extravehicular activity)
call signs for future missions, starting with Apollo 11. The Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) backpack flew for the first time on Apollo 9, used by Schweickart...
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