title: Life in extreme environments: how will humans perform on Mars?
abstract: This review of astronaut extravehicular activity (EVA) and the details of American and Soviet/Russian spacesuit design focuses on design recommendations to enhance astronaut safety and effectiveness. Innovative spacesuit design is essential, given the challenges of future exploration-class missions in which astronauts will be called upon to perform increasingly complex and physically demanding tasks in the extreme environments of microgravity and partial gravity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Newman
mesh_terms: D018478:Extravehicular Activity; D017575:Gloves, Protective; D018470:Gravity, Altered; D006801:Humans; D018472:Hypogravity; D008124:Locomotion; D018535:Mars; D016081:Moon; D012426:Russia; D013026:Space Flight; D019442:Space Suits; D014481:United States; D014893:Weightlessness