Brief report: designing life support systems for space habitats

Permanent human presence in space beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) is now technically feasible. To achieve this goal several requirements must be met, which can be summarized as: technologies, facilities, organization, vision, and will. This paper describes a recently published NASA Reference Publicatio...

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Published inLife support & biosphere science Vol. 1; no. 1; p. 49
Main Author Wieland, P
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 1994
Subjects
Ecological Systems, Closed
Environment, Controlled
Facility Design and Construction
Humans
Life Support Systems - standards
Space Flight
United States
United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States
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Summary:Permanent human presence in space beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) is now technically feasible. To achieve this goal several requirements must be met, which can be summarized as: technologies, facilities, organization, vision, and will. This paper describes a recently published NASA Reference Publication, "Designing for Human Presence in Space: An Introduction to Environmental Control and Life Support Systems" that addresses how to achieve the goal of permanent human presence in space, specifically, how to design and develop environmental control and life support systems (ECLSS) for space habitats. This includes the technologies that perform the required functions, the facilities where the systems will be developed, and the organization necessary to perform the numerous tasks efficiently.
ISSN:1069-9422