Scientists develop materials that will be able to protect astronauts, both on the way and when they're on the surface of the planetary surface. Scientists will deploy various types of formulation of our configurations that would be used on the outer part of the Martian space suit, to put that on the front end of the International Space Station, on a test station called [Materials International Space Station Experiment] 'MISSE,' which is a materials test station designed to expose things to this environment. And then it will be brought back down to Earth for further diagnostics and study.

Originally released by American Institute of Physics, 2017. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 18, 2017.