The Apollo Number: Space Suits, Self-Support, and the Walk-Run Transition

Background: How space suits affect the preferred walk-run transition is an open question with relevance to human biomechanics and planetary extravehicular activity. Walking and running energetics differ; in reduced gravity (,0.5 g), running, unlike on Earth, uses less energy per distance than walk...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Carr, Christopher E., McGee, Jeremy
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52418