Testing of a Novel IVA Space Suit

This project is intended to evaluate Final Frontier Design's Intra-Vehicular Activity (IVA) space suit in the relevant environment of microgravity. The testing would include comparative human-in-the-loop data of subject performance both in 1G and 0G, and both suited and unsuited. Data collected will include metabolic and biometric data, suited range of motion, and subject comfort.

This suit design improves the mobility, weight and operating pressure compared to other IVA (intra-vehicular activity) suit, which are required for human flight at high altitude. This technology will help future NASA, other government agency and commercial missions. Future Customers End users could include NASA, orbital flight providers such as SpaceX, Sierra Nevada, Boeing, and suborbital flight providers including Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.

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