The Buzz At Mars Society
Big scoop! BUZZ ALDRIN will shortly be joining Jim Benson's SpaceDev!
I've been at the 10th International Mars Society Convention on the UCLA campus. With 100 degree F temperatures in Southern California, it is great to have an air-conditioned suit! Thursday the attendees heard an opening plenary by Robert Zubrin, with additional talks by Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis. Friday's program included Chris McKay, Scott Horowitz and Ares Launch Program Manager Steve Cook. Saturday afternoon I gave a talk on spacesuits, and in the morning was in the front row for Aldrin. (His hat reads ON TO MARS.) He has officially joined the ranks of greybeards, but promises to get a shave by November.
As an American, Dr. Aldrin is very concerned about the "gap" between Shuttle retirement (2010) and Orion (2015, maybe). He let us know that he is joining the #3 COTS team, which we recognise as SpaceDev. The COTS program had been narrowed to SpaceX and Rocketplane Kistler. Now that RPK has failed to meet funding targets because they are hard, SpaceDev hopes to fill the gap. They want to build a winged spacecraft based on the HL-20 design atop an Atlas V booster.
Aldrin does not favour a large lunar settlement because "the Moon is not a nice place to stay. Trust me." He thinks we should explore Phobos and Deimos before Mars. After expeditions to asteroids, the Martian moons would be a logical next step. Aldrin pointed out that Phobos' L1 point is only 3.2 km from the surface, an excellent place for a Space station.
Below is one of the analog spacesuits used by the Society at their Mars Desert Research Station. The suit is made of heavy canvas, has no cooling and gets extremely hot in the desert. Many activities are restricted to night and Winter because the suits are so uncomfortable. I hope to assist the Mars Society with a more comfortable climate-controlled suit.
posted by L. Riofrio at 5:50 AM
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The suit that you are wearing is ordinary or designed fo Mars enviroment?
That's the basic flightsuit. For EVA the suit can be armoured with outer layers. On Mars one could add something like a parka for the extreme cold.
You seem to getting amazing amounts of practice getting into and out of it.
Hey Louise,
You are going to have to stop teasing us and make a video and upload it to your blog (whether through YouTube or Blogger).
It would be cool for you to give a preview flick on how this actually works as it may also help to convince someone to fund your shiny project as well. :-)
Good idea, Darnell. Working on that.
in fact alex kaplan, the suit that must be used to land over Mars is totally different, looks like more a diver suit, still keeping the helmet design and oxygen tanks.
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