Supporting New NASA Space Suits

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Apr 10, 2019

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Aerospace personnel provide a wide variety of support to the NASA Extravehicular Activity (EVA) effort, including the planning, integration, and execution of EVA’s, maintenance of the current spacesuit, the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), and management of tools and crew aids needed to perform EVA’s on the ISS.

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