When the Artemis astronauts step onto the lunar surface, they will have spent considerable time and effort installing themselves in their bulky, heavy spacesuits. They will lumber onto the surface having limited mobility and time, struggling to accomplish their assigned tasks. Their activities will kick up clinging, razor-sharp lunar dust that they will invariably carry back into their capsule on their suits. And they will enter that capsule exhausted, perhaps even injured.
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