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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Space suit research?
- Message-ID: <BxsAGu.919@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:53:16 GMT
- References: <BxMxsF.GA0.1@cs.cmu.edu> <BxqsoH.MBq@access.digex.com>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <BxqsoH.MBq@access.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
- >What's the big push for a earth normal type atmosphere?
- >apollo, etc, ran fine on low pressure pure O2, does better pressure
- >greatly improve cooling. or are there long term bio effects????
-
- The cooling issue is a serious one. Apollo didn't have that concern --
- since doing an EVA required depressurizing the entire cabin, air-cooled
- equipment could not be used at all. This was okay, more or less, for
- Apollo, but simply isn't appropriate for a laboratory environment:
- air cooling is by *far* the easiest way to cool electronics, and the
- cost of the hardware goes way up without it.
-
- And yes, there is some concern about possible long-term biological
- effects, although there is little firm knowledge.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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