title: Past, present, and future: the U.S. EVA program.
abstract: This paper provides an overview and summary of U.S. extravehicular activity accomplishments of the last 26 years, Space Shuttle missions having scheduled extravehicular activities to be performed over the next several years, extravehicular activities expected to be necessary to support Space Station Freedom assembly tasks and operations, and potential extravehicular activity roles of the NASA Space Exploration Initiative Program.
authors.affiliation: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA.
authors.lastname: McBarron JW 2nd
mesh_terms: D018480:Astronauts; D004867:Equipment Design; D018478:Extravehicular Activity; D006801:Humans; D008021:Life Support Systems / Q000295:instrumentation; D012149:Restraint, Physical; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000639:trends*; D019442:Space Suits / Q000639:trends*; D018531:Spacecraft; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014481:United States; D018557:United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration; D014893:Weightlessness