NASA to test new augmented reality glasses for astronauts

March 15, 2015 17:03

NASA is developing augmented reality glasses that could help ISS astronauts carry out difficult repairs in space.

NASA is teaming up with military tech company Osterhout Design Group for the project and plans on testing the glasses this year in its giant underwater training facility in the Gulf of Mexico.

If the testing is successful, the glasses will then gowith astronauts to the International Space Station.

After that, NASA plans on using the glasses for helping out astronauts with its Orion spacecraft, which is supposed to eventually land humans on asteroids and Mars.

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