Just back from a glove fit check for the gloves I use in the NBL for EVA training.
I have used these gloves throughout my training so far, but adjusting the gloves is an art and there is never a perfect, final result. There’s always something different to try to make sure you can work well in the gloves. If the modifications we’re trying are significant, our suit engineers will schedule a fit check to make sure that the overall glove configuration is still good.
They can adjust the finger lengths (withing a certain range) and they provide a number of different pads and comfort gloves of different thickness that we wear beneath the EVA gloves.
In the picture you can see the small vacuum chamber we test the gloves in. Air is pumped out of the chamber so that the overpressure in the gloves is 4.3 PSI, just like it is for an EVA.
16/08/2013