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Students finish Mars spacesuit test
Developed, tested by North Dakota schools under NASA grant
Updated: 9:55 a.m. PT May 8, 2006
FRYBURG, N.D. - Fabio Sau says moving from his native Italy to attend the University of North Dakota was like "coming to another planet" — and over the past week he used the state's wildest terrain for a simulated mission to Mars.
Sau was the guinea pig for an experimental Mars spacesuit that he and about 40 other students from five North Dakota schools developed under a $100,000 grant from NASA.
The suit was formally unveiled Saturday, on the last day of a test in a craterlike area surrounded by buttes in the North Dakota Badlands, the highly eroded landscape that researchers say resembles Martian terrain.
The suit was formally unveiled Saturday, on the last day of a test in a craterlike area surrounded by buttes in the North Dakota Badlands, the highly eroded landscape that researchers say resembles Martian terrain.
It took about 20 minutes for Sau to put on the 47-pound (21-kilogram), two-piece spacesuit with the help of two others. Then he walked out of a van, smiling and waving to a small crowd and giving a thumbs-up. He explored prairie brush and cactus, pulling equipment in a small red wagon and collecting rocks.
"This is a very small project," Sau said. "But it was very well executed, and it's the first step toward something bigger and better."
