Mars Spacesuit Debuts in Cratered Badlands
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A prototype Mars spacesuit designed by 40 students from five North Dakota colleges was unveiled in a craterlike area surrounded by buttes in the North Dakota Badlands.
One of the student designers, Fabio Sau of Italy, was inside the suit for its unveiling in the Mars-like landscape near the town of Fryburg.
The suit, developed under a $100,000 grant from NASA, has a transparent helmet, a rigid upper body section and a backpack holding communications gear.
It is “essentially a self-contained spacecraft,” said project manager Pablo de Leon, an aerospace engineer at the University of North Dakota.
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