EVA-related activities in Japan.
Recognizing the importance and fertility of the extra vehicular activity technologies in future space development and utilization, some related research activities have been conducted in Japan, though it has not committed itself to developing its own manned space flight capability. The purpose of this paper is to introduce and evaluate these EVA-related activities and to indicate the next step for Japan to get into the era of manned space activities including EVA in reality.
Kibe
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National Aerospace Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan.
Otsubo
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Nitta
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D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D004867:Equipment Design; D018478:Extravehicular Activity; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies; D007564:Japan; D008021:Life Support Systems / Q000295:instrumentation; D013026:Space Flight / Q000639:trends*; D018561:Space Simulation / Q000379:methods*; D019442:Space Suits; D014893:Weightlessness
D002245:Carbon Dioxide