Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Start Date
28-4-1994 2:00 PM
End Date
28-4-1994 5:00 PM
Description
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is unique in its search for man made, closed loop life support systems and in its total engineering methods. Short term space travel has given NASA tremendous knowledge in closed loop systems and the vision of extended space travel will require the expansion of this knowledge base.
Earth and its surrounding atmosphere has been operating as a closed loop life support system for billions of years. It has gone through many changes to best suit an equilibrium state. In recent years, man has developed to a level where we can effect that state. With this in mind, the task of protecting our life support system on earth and designing the systems for long duration space travel have great communality.
Paper Session III-A - Closed Loop Systems
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is unique in its search for man made, closed loop life support systems and in its total engineering methods. Short term space travel has given NASA tremendous knowledge in closed loop systems and the vision of extended space travel will require the expansion of this knowledge base.
Earth and its surrounding atmosphere has been operating as a closed loop life support system for billions of years. It has gone through many changes to best suit an equilibrium state. In recent years, man has developed to a level where we can effect that state. With this in mind, the task of protecting our life support system on earth and designing the systems for long duration space travel have great communality.
Comments
Research
Session Chairman: Bruce E. Melnick, Director of Process Improvement Technology, Lockheed Space Operations Company, Kennedy Space Center
Session Organizer: Jennifer K. Lewis, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, Kennedy Space Center