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nasa is building exciting new

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technologies to help astronauts explore

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the moon

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and it is tapping into the unique

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perspective of today's college students

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to contribute research to those new

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today is test day

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nasa engineers are helping evaluate

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software designed by students the task

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is to see how this technology can help

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during a space mission it's the

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culmination of the student's hard work

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on the program known as suits

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so suits is spacesuit user interface

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technologies for students what that

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means is we're having students design a

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graphic user interface for

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the suit helmet bubble you know a

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heads-up display would be something

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that's

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fairly far out from your face

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so maybe a couple of feet or further

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what the students are using is a head

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mounted display and we really kind of

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refer to that as a heads on like it's on

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the head and so it's only

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maybe a half inch or so away from the

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eyes

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and they wear it like goggles it allows

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them to

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not only see the real environment in

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front of them or around them but also it

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overlays text or imagery in front of

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their eye so that they see that on top

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of the real environment seeing both the

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graphic overlays and the real

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environment is called augmented reality

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the challenge for the students is to use

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this technology to be of help during one

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of the most difficult tasks encountered

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so an eva or an extravehicular activity

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a fancy word for a spacewalk at nasa is

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typically a crew member

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leaving their vehicle their their

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spacecraft in a pressurized suit evas

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oftentimes if you ask an astronaut

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they'll say that they're much like doing

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brain surgery and running a marathon at

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the same time

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what we do with suits is simulate this

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intense eva environment but we then

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introduce an augmented reality display

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in harmony with the audio feed that that

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comes over the loop from mission control

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astronauts today don't have augmented

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reality visible inside the space helmet

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during an eva

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they rely on their training mission

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control and in some cases a small

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booklet known as a cuff checklist should

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they need more information

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suits project challenges the students to

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look forward and wonder

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what if astronauts could access data

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using this technology

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what would it look like

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yeah i think suits is an awesome program

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and asks teams to create some kind of

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user interface it can be virtual reality

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or it can be augmented reality

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the goal is to

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basically build a tool that astronauts

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can use when they're doing space

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operations

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students come up with ideas that run the

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gamut of eva activity

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such as operating complex equipment

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cataloging a lunar sample

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or navigating to a remote location

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our main goal was to build a

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minimalistic and uh unobtrusive

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interface that's easy to use so we made

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sure to develop exclusively natural

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inputs like hand gestures and voice

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command to control the eva system

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nasa mentors and academia sponsors help

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the students achieve their goals it was

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extremely constructive altogether i

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would like to say that we riled each

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other up

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positively in the sense that we were

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able to achieve greater things because

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at every meeting we would say hey what

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if we do this hey what if we do that hey

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wouldn't it be awesome math so overall

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we were positively reinforcing each

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other's interests

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nasa engineers evaluate the students

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work by trying out their ideas in a

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simulated space walk

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so that they and the students see what

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works and what needs tweaking it's a

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unique educational experience

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even though we had some technical issues

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while testing it was very surreal to see

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our tool being tested at johnson space

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center

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my favorite part about working with the

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team is that everyone was very excited

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to learn and also share what they know

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we all come from different majors and

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different backgrounds so by the end of

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the cycle everyone knew a little bit

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about rocks about programming or got out

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of their comfort zone five percent of

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the art project it also helps with

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interpersonal skills learning how to

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work within a team

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improving my technical communication you

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know i can talk about systems and

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software or you know helping me be more

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confident in liabilities

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it's great to see them grow it's great

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to see them collaborating with each

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other collaborating with subject matter

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experts to make their designs more

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effective or more efficient

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the research gathered in suits benefits

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nasa too

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as it develops its own designs for

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possible graphic displays

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it's future forward work that is needed

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when i entered the field of augmented

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reality for eva displays

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there was about one paper that i could

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what suits

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provides to the engineers at nasa is

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really the ability

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to explore many different designs to

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explore many different concepts and

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really have a think tank if you will for

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what the future of these displays really

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all the hard work testing and learning

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points to a brighter future using this

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technology it's an amalgamation of

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doing something that i love

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seeing the value that would come off of

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it in the long run and i think that's

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the same for

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most of my peers as well who worked in

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this present you could see some real

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genuine passion and working on this and

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everything shows that we really want

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this to work we really want tech and

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space exploration to be the next big

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thing and and that was super satisfying

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and fulfilling to me and to the team as

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building this software for these

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displays is like giving the crew members

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superpowers

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and that's something that i love about

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it but also getting to engage with

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academia and

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the talent that we have

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in academia and in universities that's

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what we need to see

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and the creativity that comes from it to

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make these tools the best that they can

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with nasa suits we want to see your

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vision

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with massachusetts we want to see your

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vision

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this is nasa suits and we want to see

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your vision

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visit

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stem.nasa.gov

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