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U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture – Creation, Curation, and Dissemination

The U.S. spacesuit is a special system that has intrigued and fascinated the world since Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon in 1969. With over 50 years since that momentous achievement, NASA is planning to land the first woman and next man on the Moon in the near future. This goal begets the need to build a new spacesuit, a spacesuit created from the legacy knowledge of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), combined with knowledge gained from technology development over the decades. As NASA transitions to its new horizon, the U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (SKC) Program is poised to help. The SKC Program’s primary function has been to capture, curate, and disseminate spacesuit-related knowledge among scientists, engineers, and technicians. The SKC Program was created in 2007 to capture knowledge primarily from spacesuit subject-matter experts (SMEs) who were retiring from NASA. These SMEs had 30 to 50 years of spacesuit knowledge. Over the years, the SKC Program has evolved and expanded its scope with a current focus on complementing the buildup of the Exploration EMU (xEMU) at the Johnson Space Center. As part of this focus, the SKC Program recently teamed with the xEMU Community of Practice (CoP) for knowledge sharing. The xEMU CoP provides a forum where early career engineers, professionals new to human spaceflight, and the xEMU community can come together regularly to seek guidance, share knowledge, meet their peers, discover resources, and ask questions. The CoP created an environment where the knowledge can be easily and routinely captured and recorded. The recorded events are archived and curated in an SKC Program library and disseminated as appropriate. This paper details the roles that the SKC Program and CoP play in the xEMU buildup, along with the navigation of the creation, curation, and dissemination processes.

Cinda Chullen↗
NASA NTRS2014

U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture Accomplishments in Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013

The NASA U.S. spacesuit knowledge capture (KC) program has been in operations since the beginning 2008. The program was designed to augment engineers and others with information about spacesuits in a historical way. A multitude of seminars have captured spacesuit history and knowledge over the last six years of the programs existence. Subject matter experts have provided lectures and were interviewed to help bring the spacesuit to life so that lessons learned will never be lost. As well, the program concentrated in reaching out to the public and industry by making the recorded events part of the public domain through the NASA technical library via You Tube media. The U.S. spacesuit KC topics have included lessons learned from some of the most prominent spacesuit experts and spacesuit users including current and former astronauts. The events have enriched the spacesuit legacy knowledge from Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs. As well, expert engineers and scientists have shared their challenges and successes to be remembered. The last few years have been some of the most successful years of the KC program program's life with numerous recordings and releases to the public. It is evidenced by the thousands that have view the recordings online. This paper reviews the events accomplished and archived over Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013 and highlights a few of the most memorable ones. This paper also communicates ways to access the events that are available internally to NASA as well as in the public domain.

Chullen, Cinda↗
NASA NTRS2014

U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture Accomplishments in Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013

The NASA U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (KC) program has existed since the beginning of 2008. The program was designed to augment engineers and other technical team members with historical spacesuit information to add to their understanding of the spacesuit, its evolution, its limitations, and its capabilities. Over 40 seminars have captured spacesuit history and knowledge over the last six years of the program's existence. Subject matter experts have provided lectures and some were interviewed to help bring the spacesuit to life so that lessons learned will never be lost. As well, the program concentrated in reaching out to the public and industry by making the recorded events part of the public domain through the NASA technical library through YouTube media. The U.S. Spacesuit KC topics have included lessons learned from some of the most prominent spacesuit experts and spacesuit users including current and former astronauts. The events have enriched the spacesuit legacy knowledge from Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs. As well, expert engineers and scientists have shared their challenges and successes to be remembered. Based on evidence by the thousands of people who have viewed the recordings online, the last few years have been some of the most successful years of the KC program's life with numerous digital recordings and public releases. This paper reviews the events accomplished and archived over Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013 and highlights a few of the most memorable ones. This paper also communicates ways to access the events that are available internally on the NASA domain as well as those released on the public domain.

Chullen, Cinda↗
NASA NTRS2016

U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture Accomplishments in Fiscal Year 2015

The NASA U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (SKC) Program continues to capture, share, and archive significant spacesuit-related knowledge with engineers and other technical staff and invested entities. Since its 2007 inception, the SKC Program has hosted and recorded more than 65 events. By the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, 40 of these were processed and uploaded to a publically accessible NASA Web site where viewers can expand their knowledge about the spacesuit's evolution, known capability and limitations, and lessons learned. Sharing this knowledge with entities beyond NASA can increase not only more people's understanding of the technical effort and importance involved in designing a spacesuit, it can also expand the interest and support in this valuable program that ensures significant knowledge is retained and accessible. This paper discusses the FY 2015 SKC events, the release and accessibility of the approved events, and the program's future plans.

Chullen, Cinda↗
NASA NTRS2016

U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture Accomplishments in Fiscal Year 2015

The NASA U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (SKC) Program continues to capture, share, and archive significant spacesuit-related knowledge with engineers and other technical staff and invested entities. Since its 2007 inception, the SKC Program has hosted and recorded more than 75 events. By the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, 40 of these were processed and uploaded to a publically accessible NASA Web site where viewers can expand their knowledge about the spacesuit's evolution, known capabilities and limitations, and lessons learned. Sharing this knowledge with entities beyond NASA can increase not only more people's understanding of the technical effort and importance involved in designing a spacesuit, it can also expand the interest and support in this valuable program that ensures significant knowledge is retained and accessible. This paper discusses the FY 2015 SKC events, the release and accessibility of the approved events, and the program's future plans.

Chullen, Cinda↗
NASA NTRS2012

MSL Lessons Learned and Knowledge Capture

The Mars Program has recently been informed of the Planetary Protection Subcommittee (PPS) recommendation, which was endorsed by the NAC, concerning Mars Science Lab (MSL) lessons learned and knowledge capture. The Mars Program has not had an opportunity to consider any decisions specific to the PPS recommendation. Some of the activities recommended by the PPS would involve members of the MSL flight team who are focused on cruise, entry descent & landing, and early surface operations; those activities would have to wait. Members of the MSL planetary protection team at JPL are still available to support MSL lessons learned and knowledge capture; some of the specifically recommended activities have already begun. The Mars Program shares the PPS/NAC concerns about loss of potential information & expertise in planetary protection practice.

planetary protection↗
NASA NTRS1990

An application of design knowledge captured from multiple sources

The Hubble Space Telescope Operational Readiness Expert Safemode Investigation System (HSTORESIS) is a reusable knowledge base shell used to demonstrate the integration and application of design knowledge captured from multiple technical domains. The design of HSTORESIS is based on a partitioning of knowledge to maximize the potential for reuse of certain types of knowledge.

Cox, Preston A.↗
NASA NTRS2015

U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture Status and Initiatives in Fiscal Year 2014

Since its 2008 inception, the NASA U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (KC) program has shared historical spacesuit information with engineers and other technical team members to expand their understanding of the spacesuit's evolution, known capability and limitations, and future desires and needs for its use. As part of the U.S. Spacesuit KC program, subject-matter experts have delivered presentations, held workshops, and participated in interviews to share valuable spacesuit lessons learned to ensure this vital information will survive for existing and future generations to use. These events have included spacesuit knowledge from the inception of NASA's first spacesuit to current spacesuit design. To ensure that this information is shared with the entire NASA community and other interested or invested entities, these KC events were digitally recorded and transcribed to be uploaded onto several applicable NASA Web sites. This paper discusses the various Web sites that the KC events are uploaded to and possible future sites that will channel this information.

Chullen, Cinda↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture – Chronicling Spacesuit Design for the Future

With less than 4 years until the United States is scheduled to land the first woman and next man on the Moon, NASA is leveraging 60 years of experience to build a spacesuit to assist in the success of this and future human space exploration missions. This experience comes from the achievements of retired and employed spacesuit experts, innovations that were conceived from existing ideas and inventions, and a plethora of archived knowledge. The U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (SKC) Program’s primary function is to capture, archive, and share current and legacy spacesuit-related knowledge with scientists, engineers, and technicians. To capture valuable spacesuit-related knowledge, the program uses various methods that have included hosting and recording classroom and online courses, workshops, and vignettes, and preserving thousands of legacy spacesuit-related files. In 2019, the SKC Program added to its role when it began coordinating the electronic recording of the new spacesuits’ buildup. This new, next-generation spacesuit is named the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) and is a compilation of many components. As each component is tested and assembled into the suit, the SKC Program is chronicling this buildup using high-speed video production and photography that includes time-lapsed images. To complement the recording of the components, the SKC Program plans to record and photograph the design verification testing. In 2020, the SKC Program was given the initiative to research and identify the custodianship of historical spacesuit equipment that resides within the Crew and Thermal Systems Division. These archives will be added to the SKC Program’s expansive archived collection of spacesuit-related knowledge that represents over 5 decades of spacesuit legacy from the Apollo era to the pursuit of Mars and beyond. This paper describes the electronic documentation of the xEMU’s buildup and identifies the SKC Program’s 2020 accomplishments.

Cinda Chullen↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture – Chronicling Spacesuit Design for the Future

With less than 4 years until the United States is scheduled to land the first woman and next man on the Moon, NASA is leveraging 60 years of experience to build a spacesuit to assist in the success of this and future human space exploration missions. This experience comes from the achievements of retired and employed spacesuit experts, innovations that were conceived from existing ideas and inventions, and a plethora of archived knowledge. The U.S. Spacesuit Knowledge Capture (SKC) Program’s primary function is to capture, archive, and share current and legacy spacesuit-related knowledge with scientists, engineers, and technicians. To capture valuable spacesuit-related knowledge, the program uses various methods that have included hosting and recording classroom and online courses, workshops, and vignettes, and preserving thousands of legacy spacesuit-related files. In 2019, the SKC Program added to its role when it began coordinating the electronic recording of the new spacesuits’ buildup. This new, next-generation spacesuit is named the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) and is a compilation of many components. As each component is tested and assembled into the suit, the SKC Program is chronicling this buildup using high-speed video production and photography that includes time-lapsed images. To complement the recording of the components, the SKC Program plans to record and photograph the design verification testing. In 2020, the SKC Program was given the initiative to research and identify the custodianship of historical spacesuit equipment that resides within the Crew and Thermal Systems Division. These archives will be added to the SKC Program’s expansive archived collection of spacesuit-related knowledge that represents over 5 decades of spacesuit legacy from the Apollo era to the pursuit of Mars and beyond. This paper describes the electronic documentation of the xEMU’s buildup and identifies the SKC Program’s 2020 accomplishments.

Cinda Chullen↗
NASA NTRS1990

Software support environment design knowledge capture

The objective of this task is to assess the potential for using the software support environment (SSE) workstations and associated software for design knowledge capture (DKC) tasks. This assessment will include the identification of required capabilities for DKC and hardware/software modifications needed to support DKC. Several approaches to achieving this objective are discussed and interim results are provided: (1) research into the problem of knowledge engineering in a traditional computer-aided software engineering (CASE) environment, like the SSE; (2) research into the problem of applying SSE CASE tools to develop knowledge based systems; and (3) direct utilization of SSE workstations to support a DKC activity.

Dollman, Tom↗
NASA NTRS2024

X-Plane Knowledge Capture Workshop Summary Report

The history of experimental aircraft research and development at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provides a large body of work for current and future team members to learn from and apply. NASA values the knowledge it gains from all the research it performs and desires to have that knowledge grow with each new project, incrementally adding to the collective knowledge base. To support this knowledge growth and sharing, in May 2019, NASA convened over 60 engineers; researchers; and other personnel (internal and external to NASA) for the X-plane1 Knowledge Capture Workshop to discuss their over 50-years’ worth of experiences in developing, operating, and managing experimental aircraft. Over the course of a two-day workshop, the group not only focused, primarily, on current X-plane development but also discussed a wide range of topics about experimental aircraft and flight research. In addition to the discussions, senior NASA aeronautics leaders shared their personal lessons learned with the workshop audience. Broadly, these discussions centered around the topics of organizational and cultural practices, the project lifecycle, flight, and risk and safety. Many of the observations offered by participants are applicable to other NASA team-based projects, demonstrating the value in sharing lessons learned and best practices across projects regardless of their research focus. To share the most valuable lessons learned as broadly as possible, a summary of these discussions has been compiled into the following report. These discussions are mostly included in their entirety, with some light editing for clarity and privacy. NASA is sharing this knowledge internally and making it available to the public in hopes that others can learn from the experimental aircraft challenges and successes at NASA. Note: this document represents the perspectives, experiences, and opinions of others but does not necessarily represent the official view of NASA.

Steven R Hirshorn↗
NASA NTRS1990

Design knowledge capture for a corporate memory facility

Currently, much of the information regarding decision alternatives and trade-offs made in the course of a major program development effort is not represented or retained in a way that permits computer-based reasoning over the life cycle of the program. The loss of this information results in problems in tracing design alternatives to requirements, in assessing the impact of change in requirements, and in configuration management. To address these problems, the problem was studied of building an intelligent, active corporate memory facility which would provide for the capture of the requirements and standards of a program, analyze the design alternatives and trade-offs made over the program's lifetime, and examine relationships between requirements and design trade-offs. Early phases of the work have concentrated on design knowledge capture for the Space Station Freedom. Tools are demonstrated and extended which helps automate and document engineering trade studies, and another tool is being developed to help designers interactively explore design alternatives and constraints.

Boose, John H.↗
NASA NTRS1986

An approach to design knowledge capture for the space station

The design of NASA's space station has begun. During the design cycle, and after activation of the space station, the reoccurring need will exist to access not only designs, but also deeper knowledge about the designs, which is only hinted in the design definition. Areas benefiting from this knowledge include training, fault management, and onboard automation. NASA's Artificial Intelligence Office at Johnson Space Center and The MITRE Corporation have conceptualized an approach for capture and storage of design knowledge.

Wechsler, D. B.↗