Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Dava Newman: Space Fashion
Season 2010 Episode 4 | 2m 20s | Video has closed captioning.
Dava Newman: Space Fashion
Aired: 01/07/10
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Season 2010 Episode 4 | 2m 20s | Video has closed captioning.
Dava Newman: Space Fashion
Aired: 01/07/10
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
(typewriter clicking) (gentle music) - [Male Voice] Two, one, zero.
- I was five years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, but it was really important to me.
- [Male Voice] Okay, Neil, we can see you coming, down the ladder now.
- I remember the astronauts coming down, the lunar module and landing, and then the cameras zoomed in not to, shortly after on the footprint.
What an image to remember, someone looping on the moon in those spaces, and walking on another planet.
- History happened, over here.
- So I think it really did plant the seeds, of my career in aerospace engineering.
(gentle music) This is the bio suit, it's a mock up, so it's our fourth generation mock up.
The most important boss who design goals, are to come up with a completely new way, to keep someone alive in a pressure suit.
We wanna provide a lot more locomotion and mobility, and we want the astronauts to use a lot less energy.
I can move around for you, you can see, I have a lot of flexibility.
I can move my arms and legs.
When we get to the moon and Mars, we're gonna be on our knees, we're gonna be digging climbing, so I needed to be really mobile and flexible, and so that's the advantage of some of our designs.
If you guys do it with me, you can do calisthenics.
The black lines allow me, to fully move my arms and legs, but they still keep the structure.
These gold lines, these are where we embed some wearable computing.
(beep) They can tell me my heart rate.
We currently collaborate with Buzz Aldrin.
How for the past decade, the whole time we've been working on the bio suit, he had given us a lot of information, how it was to be on the moon.
- [Male Voice] Hello mum, from the planet earth, we are accept for the bond in the moon.
- For me to see a bio suit inspired space suit, on the moon and Mars would be the ultimate.
It might even bring a tear to my eyes, after all of that time and effort, I really would like to see astronauts, performing space walks in our suit.
(typewriter clicking)