Extravehicular Mobility Unit
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extravehicular-mobility-unit-186-929940
title:
Extravehicular Mobility Unit
text:
The Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) is an independent anthropomorphic spacesuit that provides environmental protection, mobility, life support, and communications for astronauts performing extravehicular activity (EVA) in Earth orbit. Introduced in 1981, it is a two-piece semi-rigid suit, and is currently one of two types of EVA spacesuits used by crew members on the International Space Station (ISS), the other being the Russian Orlan space suit. It was used by NASA's Space Shuttle astronauts
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Series of semi-rigid two-piece space suit models from the United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit
date created:
2004-06-21T02:45:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T20:56:55Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/STS-118_EVA_EMU_Suit.jpg","width":1125,"height":1803}
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13
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