Engineering Design Study Of A Space Suit With An Integrated Environmental Control System
Report Number: AMRL TR 68-122
Author(s): Howard, Douglas C.
Corporate Author(s): Hamilton Standard Windsor Locks Conn
Laboratory: Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories
Date of Publication: 1968-10
Pages: 166
Contract: F33615-67-C-1946
DoD Project: 7164
DoD Task: 716411
Identifier: AD0680826
Abstract:
Continued success in coping with the space environment has led to increased crewman confidence in his ability to perform useful work during extraterrestrial missions. Future missions will require advanced suit/life-support-system concepts. Such a concept might logically take the form of a space suit for extravehicular activity with an integrated environmental control system. A design study of this concept has been performed and drawings prepared in sufficient detail to permit fabrication of a working model in a suitably equipped model shop. Integration of the environmental control system within the hard torso of the suit assembly resulted in a system having a packaging density approaching 80 percent and able to pass through a 27 inch diameter hatch. The system will support a crewman working at 375 Kcal/hour for an indefinite time to a recharge in space capability.
Provenance: Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control
Author(s): Howard, Douglas C.
Corporate Author(s): Hamilton Standard Windsor Locks Conn
Laboratory: Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories
Date of Publication: 1968-10
Pages: 166
Contract: F33615-67-C-1946
DoD Project: 7164
DoD Task: 716411
Identifier: AD0680826
Abstract:
Continued success in coping with the space environment has led to increased crewman confidence in his ability to perform useful work during extraterrestrial missions. Future missions will require advanced suit/life-support-system concepts. Such a concept might logically take the form of a space suit for extravehicular activity with an integrated environmental control system. A design study of this concept has been performed and drawings prepared in sufficient detail to permit fabrication of a working model in a suitably equipped model shop. Integration of the environmental control system within the hard torso of the suit assembly resulted in a system having a packaging density approaching 80 percent and able to pass through a 27 inch diameter hatch. The system will support a crewman working at 375 Kcal/hour for an indefinite time to a recharge in space capability.
Provenance: Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control