The 10 day Lunar/Mars mission simulation by the North Dakota UND Human Spaceflight Laboratory has been underway since Sunday. (See earlier post.)
Three graduate students are living
inside an Inflatable Planetary Module, using a Pressurized Rover and two NDX-2AT space suits. All these elements were developed at the UND Space Suit Laboratory www.human.space.edu under a 3-year NASA grant.
You can follow their activities on the NDX Space Suit Projects. Here are their reports so far:
- NDX Space Suit Projects: Crew Report. Day # 2
- NDX Space Suit Projects: Commander Report. Day #1
- NDX Space Suit Projects: Crew Post. Day #1
- NDX Space Suit Projects: Crew Enters into the Habitat for their 10-day mission!
- NDX Space Suit Projects: First Time Test of two NDX-2AT Suits Simultaneously.
- NDX Space Suit Projects: Mission I Crew Members
- NDX Space Suit Projects: Tomorrow, Sunday 10-27 starts Mission I!
And a local newspaper story: UND starts a ten day lunar habitat experiment – WDAY | Fargo, ND (includes video news report):