  As space exploration efforts shift to deep space missions, new challenges
emerge regarding astronaut communication and task completion. While the round
trip propagation delay for lunar communications is 2.6 seconds, the time delay
increases to nearly 22 minutes for Mars missions. This creates a need for
astronaut independence from earth-based assistance, and places greater
significance upon the limited communications that are able to be delivered. To
address this issue, we prototyped an augmented reality user interface for the
new xEMU spacesuit, intended for use on planetary surface missions. This user
interface assists with functions that would usually be completed by flight
controllers in Mission Control, or are currently completed in manners that are
unnecessarily difficult. We accomplish this through features such as AR
model-based task instruction, sampling task assistance, note taking, and
telemetry monitoring and display.
