Space suit bioenergetics: Framework and analysis of unsuited and suited activity

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1013-1022

  Carr, Christopher E ^a   Newman, Dava J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy recovery; Extravehicular activity (EVA); Muscle efficiency; Running; Walking

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESSURE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REVIEW; RUNNING; SPACE FLIGHT; VELOCITY; WALKING;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRESSURE; RUNNING; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE SUITS; WALKING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 35948950800     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.1952.2007     Document Type: Review

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