The apollo number: Space suits, self-support, and the walk-run transition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Carr, Christopher E ^a   McGee, Jeremy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; APOLLO NUMBER; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVITY; HUMAN; LEG LENGTH; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MOON; PREDICTION; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RUNNING; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY VALIDATION; VELOCITY; WALKING;

HUMANS; RUNNING; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE SUITS; WALKING;

EID: 68949113534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006614     Document Type: Article

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