{"id":110876,"date":"2020-08-04T19:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasas-perseverance-rover-will-carry-first-spacesuit-materials-to-mars"},"modified":"2020-08-04T19:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:02:28","slug":"nasas-perseverance-rover-will-carry-first-spacesuit-materials-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasas-perseverance-rover-will-carry-first-spacesuit-materials-to-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Perseverance Rover Will Carry First Spacesuit Materials to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-perseverance-rover-will-carry-first-spacesuit-materials-to-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In a Q&amp;A, spacesuit designer Amy Ross explains how five samples, including a piece of helmet visor, will be tested aboard the rover, which is targeting a July 30 launch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NASA is preparing to send the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/artemis\/\">first woman and next man to the Moon<\/a>, part of a larger strategy to send the first astronauts to the surface of Mars. But before they get there, they\u2019ll be faced with a critical question: What should they wear on Mars, where the thin atmosphere allows more radiation from the Sun and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2019\/how-nasa-protects-astronauts-from-space-radiation-at-moon-mars-solar-cosmic-rays\">cosmic rays<\/a> to reach the ground?<\/p>\n<p>Amy Ross is looking for answers. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/foreducators\/spacesuits\/careercorner\/amy-ross.html\">advanced spacesuit designer<\/a> at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, she\u2019s developing new suits for the Moon and Mars. So Ross is eagerly awaiting this summer\u2019s launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/\">Perseverance Mars rover<\/a>, which will carry the first samples of spacesuit material ever sent to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Q&amp;A, spacesuit designer Amy Ross explains how five samples, including a piece of helmet visor, will be tested aboard the rover, which is targeting a July 30 launch. NASA is preparing to send the first woman and next man to the Moon, part of a larger strategy to send the first astronauts to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}