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Moonwalk with Gregory
Every once in awhile, the Gregory R&D team gets the opportunity to challenge themselves and think out of the 'backpacks are only for hiking' box. And when someone like an engineer at NASA comes calling, looking for your expertise in load carrying systems, you're going to answer the call. A few months ago, NASA challenged our R&D team with helping them build a working suspension prototype that would integrate with their external suit deployment system. Our designers were up for the challenge, and using one of our existing suspension systems, modified it to integrate with the existing NASA ‘pack’. This pack is worn by astronauts while space walking and holds all of their life support equipment, monitors, oxygen, antennas, etc. In space at 1/6 gravity, these packs will feel like they weigh 35 pounds. Easy day. However, during training here on earth, they'll feel like they weigh about 200 pounds. Literally. Good thing we are experts at load carrying. The pictures above came to us from the first round of testing out in the desert. The rover pictured holds the astronaut suits which are connected to the life support and instrument packs. Astronauts climb into the suits from inside the rover, and once sealed and secured inside, they deploy from the main craft and are able to walk around freely in space.
