National Air and Space Museum Archives

Power Driven Articulated Dummy Final Report

Summary

Collection ID:
NASM.2008.0015
Creators:
Illinois Institute of Technology
Dates:
1965
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.05 Cubic feet
1 folder
Repository:
An articulated dummy was built in the early 1960s for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center by the Illinois Institute of Technology to support the development of space suits. This collection contains the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute (IITRI) final report for Project No. K6051, Power Driven Articulated Dummy.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
This collection contains the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute (IITRI) final report for Project No. K6051, Power Driven Articulated Dummy. This project was under Contract No. NAS 9-1370 and ran from May 22, 1963 through July 31, 1965. The report was prepared by J. Slowik for the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas and is dated December 14, 1965. The report is 8.5 by 11 inches, plastic spiral bound, and is 70 pages long plus three appendices, and includes images as well as several schematic drawings that fold out to full size.

Arrangement

Arrangement
Collection is in original order.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
An articulated dummy was built in the early 1960s for NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center by the Illinois Institute of Technology to support the development of space suits. It used hydraulic and electrical actuators to replicate many of the joint motions of the human body, with realistic forces. Sensors placed throughout the dummy measured forces that a prototype suit might exert on a human being when wearing the suit in a space environment. That enabled suit designers to measure how much force a human would need to move an arm or leg, or turn his or her head, when wearing a suit in space. By using this dummy instead of a human being during the design and testing of a space suit, tests could proceed that might otherwise be painful, tedious, or dangerous for a human being.

Administration

Author
Jessamyn Lloyd
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Dr. Clare Slowik, Gift, 2008, NASM.2008.0015
Processing Information
Arranged and described in 2008 by Jessamyn Lloyd, encoded in 2020 by Jessamyn Lloyd.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Use
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access.
Preferred Citation
Power Driven Articulated Dummy Final Report, NASM.2008.0015, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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