World Space Walk event tested three spacesuits for Mars surface activities

As part of the recent World Space Week 2013 (Oct.4-10), the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF)  sponsored a World Space Walk event on October 8th in which three space suit designs were tested at three different locations:

The participants included:

The tasks for the Space Walk program  included the following:

1) Complete an obstacle course. Erect a tripod. Mount a gnomon (sundial) on tripod.
2) Complete an obstacle course. Take a camera from the spacesuit’s pocket. Take pictures of feet and horizon pointing north, south, east and west.
3) Complete an obstacle course. Take out a sample bag, collect a rock sample and place in the bag. Label the sample bag and place in container.

Here “Aouda.X analogue astronaut, Luca Foresta, starts the obstacle course”:

World Space Walk 2013: Three Mars analogue spacesuit teams perform simultaneous experiments
Credit: OewF/Claudia Stix

Here is a video of the NDX-2 test:

World Space Walk 2013 Local 4 from Austrian Space Forum on Vimeo.

This pictures shows the MDRS Analogue astronaut erecting “a tripod to support a sundial gnomon for D-TREX Experiment 1”.

World Space Walk 2013: Three Mars analogue spacesuit teams perform simultaneous experiments
Credit: the Mars Society/ H. Mogosanu/ WSW2013 Mission to Mars Crew

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The Space Walk event was part of a number of several projects within The 2013 World Wide WSW Mars Simulation program.