Basic design of Apollo space-suit assembly was adapted to include personal liquid-cooling approach, developed at British Royal Aircraft Establishment; this required addition of major subsystem to Apollo Portable Life Support System (PLSS); previous PLSS design relied upon gas cooling to absorb metabolic and external heat loads; modified PLSS which retains gas-ventilation loop at greatly reduced flow rates, incorporates liquid pump, heat exchanger, and associated controls; design details and performance of system; advantages of liquid concept as it affects system weight, volume, and thermal capacity.
Apollo portable life-support system -- Development status
ASME -- Paper
ASME Meeting AV-45 ; 1965 Life support systems
1965
5 pages
Conference paper
English
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