NASA's Advanced Life Support Program has included as part of its long-range planning the development of a large-scale advanced life support facility capable of supporting long-duration testing of integrated, regenerative biological and physicochemical life support systems. As the designated NASA Field Center responsible for integration and testing of advanced life support systems, Johnson Space Center has undertaken the development of such a facility--the Advanced Life Support Human-Rated Test Facility (HRTF). As conceived, the HRTF is an interconnected five-chamber facility with a sealed internal environment capable of supporting a test crew of four for periods exceeding one year. The life support system which sustains the crew consists of both biological and physicochemical components and will perform air revitalization, water recovery, food production, solid waste processing, thermal management, and integrated control and monitoring functions. Currently, a portion of this multichamber facility has been constructed and is being outfitted with basic utilities and infrastructure. This paper summarizes the recent progress in developing the HRTF and provides a description of development activities which will continue over the next several years.


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    Title :

    Progress on Development of the Advanced Life Support Human-Rated Test Facility


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference on Environmental Systems ; 1995



    Publication date :

    1995-07-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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