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.


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    Title :

    Apollo portable life-support system -- Development status


    Additional title:

    ASME -- Paper


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    ASME Meeting AV-45 ; 1965 Life support systems



    Publication date :

    1965


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :