The acquisition of crew biomedical data has been an important task on all manned space missions from Project Mercury through the recently completed Skylab Missions. The monitoring of metabolic wastes from the crew is an important aspect of this activity. On early missions emphasis was placed on the collection and return of biowaste samples for post-mission analysis. On later missions such as Skylab, equipment for inflight measurement was also added. Life Science experiments are being proposed for Shuttle missions which will require the inflight measurement and sampling of metabolic wastes. In order to minimize the crew impact associated with these requirements, a high degree of automation of these processes will be required. This paper reviews the design and capabilities of urine biowaste monitoring equipment provided on past-manned space programs and defines and describes the urine volume measurement and sampling equipment planned for the Shuttle Orbiter program.


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    Title :

    Biowaste monitoring system for shuttle


    Contributors:
    Fogal, G. L. (author) / Sauer, R. L. (author)

    Conference:

    Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems ; 1975 ; San Francisco, CA


    Publication date :

    1975-07-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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