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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!eos!brody
- From: brody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Adam R. Brody )
- Subject: Re: Space suit research?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.180102.20839@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
- References: <BxMxsF.GA0.1@cs.cmu.edu> <BxqsoH.MBq@access.digex.com> <BxsAGu.919@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:01:02 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
-
- >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.
- >--
-
- Actually, the latest I have heard is that cold plates will be used
- for cooling and the sole reason for high pressure is health. The fact
- that people live in high elevations like Denver and Mexico City, where
- the atmospheric pressure is lower than sea level does not hold much weight.
-