Space Suit Testing in Utah

From February 5th to February 10th 2012 I was part of a team from the University of North Dakota's Spacesuit Lab to travel to Hanksville, UT to analog field test UND's NDX-1 Spacesuit at the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station with personnel from NASA Ames Research Center Center.

Me in the NDX-1 Suit without the Helmet

Testing was done to compare geology tasks completed in the suit vs. the same tasks preformed without the suit.    The personnel from NASA Ames will publish their findings in the future.  

Me in the Suit Pointing at the Sky

Also this allowed the field testing of the Bio-Medical Sensing System that the North Dakota State University developed for the UND Spacesuit Lab.

On the move in the NDX-1 Suit

More of this can be seen at human.space.edu or the Spacesuit Lab's field testing blog: http://spacesuitlab.blogspot.com/

Hi Everyone!

Hi Everyone!

My name is Tim and I am an entry level aerospace engineer continuing on my quest to become an astronaut.  I am set in May to graduate from the University of North Dakota with my Masters in Science in Space Studies.  Over the last 2 years I have been working in The University of North Dakota's Human Spaceflight Lab under the direction of Pablo de Leon.  I have worked on, built, designed everything from a personal life support system to a high attitude balloon payload to an analog lunar rover to spacesuit components.  I am off to a new chapter of my life, I have finished my education in academia for the time being and I am off to get a job in the space industry.   Also try to make some of that thing called money, got to pay off those loans somehow.

I am leaving good old Grand Forks, ND and driving down to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX to work in a summer internship with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute which has placed me in JSC's Human Factors Group.  All I really know is that it gets hot in Houston but I am looking forward to this summer.

Until next time,

Tim