Daily-wear environment suit for citizen scientist research

Your species appears to be contemplating sending humans to other objects in your system, without bothering to take the obvious step of developing an efficient non-Newtonian spacedrive beforehand.

Oh well, don't say you weren't warned.

However, visiting Mars, one of the more obvious destinations, is going to require humans to spend a lot of time in environment suits.

These are under development, and indeed are being tested.

But the sample is small.

The problems of day-to-day wear of environment suits need to be established, and the simple route is to recruit citizen scientists.

A not-for-profit organization would be set up to promote the idea. The project could be fronted by real astronauts and cosmonauts, plus highly credible academics, scientists and engineers, such as Stephen Hawking (but not, gods help us, Brian bloody Cox. Not him, please).

Suit design guidelines would be publically available so that participants can build their own (indeed would be encouraged to do so, to promote innovation) , and some components and full suits would be available "off the peg".

The suits would need to be realistic - bulky, limiting, heavy, with tough boots and thick, clumsy gloves - and this would somehow need to be independently verified. The backpack would genuinely contain basic life-support and communications units (represented by a mobile phone) - the suit would actually supply filtered, dehumidified air to the wearer. Its weight would be calculated so that the load carried by the wearer would be the equivalent to that on Mars. There could possibly be heating/cooling systems, and issues such as drinking and waste elimination would be addressed.

And then ? Well, the citizen scientists go about their day to day lives, in all weathers. But things like gardening, walking the dog, and vacuuming the car, would be carried out in the suit. Perhaps there might be a "mission profile" - timed limited, or specific activities - set by the organizing body.

Wearers would record their experiences on bodycams, and fill out reports to clarify details.

The rest of the planet will soon become accustomed to humans wandering round in environment suits - and they'll get a nice armband to wear, and perhaps the equivalent of scout badges for "missions" accomplished - after all, they aren't being paid, and are likely to be subjected to a fair bit of public ridicule.