The Apollo Number: space suits, self-support, and the walk-run

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 wal...

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Principais autores: McGee, Jeremy, Carr, Christopher E.
Outros Autores: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:en_US
Publicado em: Public Library of Science 2010
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54794