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타이틀	EVA Development and Verification Testing at NASA''s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
저자	Jairala, Juniper C.;; Durkin, Robert;; Marak, Ralph J.;; Sipila, Stepahnie A.;; Ney, Zane A.;; Parazynski, Scott E.;; Thomason, Arthur H.
Keyword	ASTRONAUTS;; BUOYANCY;; EDUCATION;; EQUIPMENT SPECIFICATIONS;; EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY;; INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION;; MAINTENANCE;; PERSONNEL;; REPLACING
URL	http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20120006539
보고서번호	JSC-CN-26179
발행년도	2012
출처	NTRS (NASA Technical Report Server)
ABSTRACT	As an early step in the preparation for future Extravehicular Activities (EVAs), astronauts perform neutral buoyancy testing to develop and verify EVA hardware and operations. Neutral buoyancy demonstrations at NASA Johnson Space Center''s Sonny Carter Training Facility to date have primarily evaluated assembly and maintenance tasks associated with several elements of the International Space Station (ISS). With the retirement of the Shuttle, completion of ISS assembly, and introduction of commercial players for human transportation to space, evaluations at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) will take on a new focus. Test objectives are selected for their criticality, lack of previous testing, or design changes that justify retesting. Assembly tasks investigated are performed using procedures developed by the flight hardware providers and the Mission Operations Directorate (MOD). Orbital Replacement Unit (ORU) maintenance tasks are performed using a more systematic set of procedures, EVA Concept of Operations for the International Space Station (JSC-33408), also developed by the MOD. This paper describes the requirements and process for performing a neutral buoyancy test, including typical hardware and support equipment requirements, personnel and administrative resource requirements, examples of ISS systems and operations that are evaluated, and typical operational objectives that are evaluated.