Wasn't this considered as an alternative to the Shuttle arm, but lost out?
http://www.leonarddavid.com/inside-looks-at-single-person-spacecraft/http://genesisesi.com/sps.htmlThe concept of a Single Person Spacecraft has been around for a long time. It shows up in the Disney short films in the 1950s and the Collier's magazine series. But this particular design has been around awhile too. I think I first saw it in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Does anybody know anything more about it? Anybody have any papers on it, or other artwork?
There is a lot to like with the concept, although I would think the interior volume could be reduced due to the advancement of modern displays,
Quote from: Coastal Ron on 06/11/2016 02:57 amThere is a lot to like with the concept, although I would think the interior volume could be reduced due to the advancement of modern displays, The photos above date from a few months ago. Do you know of advances in modern displays since March?
Blackstar,They had a FISO telecon presentation about their work a while back. I can't remember for sure, but it was a contractor at MSFC named Brand Griffin (I think) who was working on this...<Digs through email>Yeah, Brand Griffin of Grey Research at MSFC. The concept is called flexcraft, and the FISO telecon presentation woudl've been in August of 2012.http://spirit.as.utexas.edu/%7Efiso/telecon10-12/Griffin_8-15-12/Griffin_8-15-12.pdfHe's also done a bit of work with deep space habitat concepts and such.Hope that helps,~JonPS I could also make an introduction if you'd like--we've exchanged a few emails in the past.
There are a lot of somewhat similar designs, including SLOMAR, discussed in: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacesuits.phpSearch the page for "Drell" to get to the start of where these are discussed.