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The Apollo Number: Space Suits, Self-Support, and the Walk-Run Transition

BACKGROUND: How space suits affect the preferred walk-run transition is an open question with relevance to human biomechanics and planetary extravehicular activity. Walking and running energetics differ; in reduced gravity (<0.5 g), running, unlike on Earth, uses less energy per distance than wal...

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Autores principales: Carr, Christopher E., McGee, Jeremy
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19672305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006614