The "STEP INTO THE FUTURE" backpack features a lunar design embossed with an astronaut footprint, reminiscent of the first moonwalk during the Apollo 11 mission. Before we could blast off with the ...

NASA has developed a backpack-sized sensor to help moon astronauts map their surroundings. The sensor would build a 3D map in real-time to help them navigate uncharted or dark terrain. NASA plans ...

The backpack will use lidar, or light detection and ranging laser light, to generate centimeter-level 3D maps of the moon's surface as Artemis program astronauts do their activities.

The backpack, dubbed the Kinematic Navigation and Cartography Knapsack (KNaCK), uses a remote-sensing mapping system to create high-resolution, 3-D maps that astronauts could use to explore the ...

The Story of NASA’s Jet-Propulsion Backpack Thirty years ago, astronauts set out on the first untethered space odyssey . Andrew Chaikin. April 2014. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

Astronauts are no exception. ... The “SuperLimbs” are built into a backpack that also contains the motors that power them, along with the astronaut’s life support system.