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Mixed Reality Crew Assistance (MRC)

Completed TRL 6 (started at 4, targeting 6)

Description

Mixed Reality technologies will increase the utilization of the ISS and enable greater crew autonomy for missions beyond Earth orbit. Crew activities today are governed by difficult to follow written procedures and inefficient interactions with ground operators. This effort aims to target 2x improvement in task execution speed and 50% reduction in task errors.

Benefits

NASA Funded: Improve Crew Productivity and Reduce Errors##NASA Unfunded: Asynchronous procedural assitance for long-duration crew missions##OGA: Location based procedure operations for any industry##Industry: Improve Crew Productivity and Reduce Errors##Nation: Location based procedure operations for any industry#

Details

ProgramGame Changing Development (GCD)
Lead organizationJet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Start date2016-10-01
End date2018-03-06

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