Three student-run teams at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are gearing up for a week of testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The groups are a part of UNL’s Research, Engineering and Design (RED) Teams, and the three teams are competing in two separate NASA-hosted challenges. The first team is competing in the NASA SUITS Challenge, an augmented reality design challenge.
According to Matthew Bigge, a fifth-year School of Computing student who founded the SUITS team last year, the goal is to help NASA design a viable display system for moon-bound astronauts on Artemis missions. Similar to how sci-fi or action video games display a character’s health on screen, NASA wants to design a video game-esque system that allows astronauts to check their biometrics in real time.
“Things like how much oxygen they have left and battery temperature, their bearing and navigation equipment would have assistance through that,” Bigge said. “Along with things like mission objectives, and all sorts of other tools that could fit into that data stream.”
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