Exploration, Human Exploration - HMP 2000 The ExPOC Mission Support Experiment Involving daily links during a three week period with the new Exploration Planning and Operations Center at the NASA Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Mission Control Center (MCC). A central goal of the experiment is to study how human missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) and in particular to Mars might be supported by ground controllers given operational constraints such as communications delay times of order 10 to 40 minutes. An ExPOC mission controller will join the HMP-2000 team at Haughton to coordinate the experiment, collect logistical and operational data, and plan daily uplink/downlink communications sessions with the NASA JSC MCC ExPOC. The Hamilton-Sundstrand Mars Suit Study Involving the field deployment of a prototype of a spacesuit currently under design at Hamilton-Sundstrand, Inc. for Mars exploration applications. A central goal of the experiment is to investigate the requirements to be met by a Mars Suit in support of a demanding program of Mars surface exploration activities as may be revealed by field activities on the HMP. Engineers fromHamilton-Sundstrand will work with, and sollicit feedback from, HMP field scientists engaged in the daily process of actually exploring a somewhat Mars-like site. A variety of other experiments will be carried out on HMP-2000 to further studies of the requirements for human missions to Mars. Some will be a continuation of studies begun in previous years ; others will represent new elements in the HMP's Exploration Research program. Examples include studies of EVA (Extravehicular Activity) metrics, field science equipment and instrumentation trials, field tool design studies, and a Glove for Extreme Environments Study (GEES).