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Ike Theriot Helps Prepare Astronauts to Work on the Moon
Ike Theriot, a lead at NASA's Johnson Space Center, develops testing and procedures to prepare Artemis program astronauts for living and working on the Moon.
Why it matters
This preparation reduces risk by ensuring astronaut training and equipment performance are refined before they deploy to the lunar surface.
The details
- Theriot helped develop the Lunar Grid Reference System for human operations on the Moon.
- He tests spacesuits using ARGOS, a system that simulates lunar gravity.
- Theriot was recently selected as a capcom to communicate with orbiting astronauts.
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Axiom Space owns AxEMU
Axiom Space developed the AxEMU lunar spacesuit for NASA's Artemis program
Ike Theriot works at Johnson Space Center
Ike Theriot serves as Flight Operations Surface Testing Lead at NASA Johnson Space Center
NASA uses the AxEMU spacesuit for Artemis lunar mission testing and training
Ike Theriot uses AxEMU
Ike Theriot tested the AxEMU spacesuit in geologic sampling operations at Johnson Space Center
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