The device was tested on a parabolic flight simulating lunar gravity in a first-of-its-kind experiment.
"This equipment should be able to carry on top of it payloads, tools, spacewalk tools, cameras, antennas — anything that you would need on a worksite on the moon," Hervé Stevenin, the chief instructor of European astronauts and the driving force behind the European Space Agency astronaut training, told Space.com in an exclusive interview during a weeklong test campaign that he and his team conducted in Bordeaux, France, in late April.
"On the moon, you weigh one-sixth of your weight, so the standard strategy is that when you move, you jump from one foot to another one, or on both feet like a kangaroo," said Stevenin."We want to test how an operator, an astronaut in lunar gravity, will walk with this type of a locomotion while pushing or pulling this type of equipment and how the equipment will react on an uneven terrain.
"We know from that mission that it was sometimes difficult for the astronauts to maintain stability of the carrier, and that they sometimes struggled to get over complex terrain," said Stevenin.
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