Engineers and technicians at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston are testing the spacesuit\u00a0astronauts will wear in the agency\u2019s Orion spacecraft on trips to deep space. On March 17, members of the Johnson team\u00a0participated\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0Vacuum Pressure Integrated Suit Test\u00a0to verify enhancements to the suit will meet test and design standards for the Orion\u00a0spacecraft.\u00a0\u00a0During this test, the suit is connected to life\u00a0support\u00a0systems and then air is removed from Johnson\u2019s 11-foot thermal vacuum chamber to evaluate the performance of the suits in conditions similar to a spacecraft.\u00a0The\u00a0suit, known as the Modified Advanced Crew Escape Suit, is a closed-loop version of the launch and entry suits worn by space shuttle astronauts.\u00a0The suit will contain all the necessary functions to support life and is being designed to enable spacewalks and sustain the crew in the unlikely event the spacecraft loses pressure.<\/p>\n
This is the first in a series of four tests\u00a0with people in the suits to evaluate the\u00a0performance of the spacesuit systems in an environment similar to a spacecraft.\u00a0Learn more about where the suits are tested or track all of the latest news at www.nasa.gov\/orion.<\/p>\n
Image Credit: NASA\/ Bill Stafford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Engineers and technicians at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston are testing the spacesuit\u00a0astronauts will wear in the agency\u2019s Orion spacecraft on trips to deep space. On March 17, members of the Johnson team\u00a0participated\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0Vacuum Pressure Integrated Suit Test\u00a0to verify enhancements to the suit will meet test and design standards for the Orion\u00a0spacecraft.\u00a0\u00a0During this test, the suit is connected to life\u00a0support\u00a0systems and then air is removed from Johnson\u2019s 11-foot thermal vacuum chamber to evaluate the performance of the suits in conditions similar to a spacecraft.\u00a0The\u00a0suit, known as the Modified Advanced Crew Escape Suit, is a closed-loop version of the launch and entry suits worn by space shuttle astronauts.\u00a0The suit will contain all the necessary functions to support life and is being designed to enable spacewalks and sustain the crew in the unlikely event the spacecraft loses pressure.<\/p>\n
This is the first in a series of four tests\u00a0with people in the suits to evaluate the\u00a0performance of the spacesuit systems in an environment similar to a spacecraft.\u00a0Learn more about where the suits are tested or track all of the latest news at www.nasa.gov\/orion.<\/p>\n
Image Credit: NASA\/ Bill Stafford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}