Holographic Enabled Display for xEVA

Providing suited astronauts with the critical information needed to perform their complicated and high endurance missions is a priority need for the NASA space program. Human interfaces to support this demanding work can be facilitated with a spacesuit Heads-In Display coupled to information systems and potentially Augmented Reality processors and sensors. With a suitable information display and an Augmented Reality interface the user will have greater autonomy as will be needed on missions where communications with mission control or data resources is delayed, limited or unreliable. Good information makes for better decisions, better outcomes, and improved safety. The proposed solution we will develop can bridge the technology gap that exists with state-of-the-art AR displays that can’t simultaneously provide the metrics of eye relief, field of view, brightness and resolution needed in a spacesuit helmet display.