Title :
Exploration Life Support Overview and Benefits
Author_Institution :
Nat. Aeronaut. & Space Adm., Houston
Abstract :
NASA´s exploration life support (ELS) project is providing technology development to address air, water and waste product handling for future exploration vehicles. Existing life support technology and processes need to improve to enable exploration vehicles to meet mission goals. The weight, volume, power and thermal control required, reliability, crew time and life cycle cost are the primary targets for ELS technology development improvements. An overview of the ELS technologies being developed leads into an evaluation of the benefits the ELS technology developments offer.
Keywords :
space research; space vehicles; exploration life support overview; space exploration vehicles; waste product handling; Control systems; Food technology; Human factors; NASA; Project management; Space technology; Space vehicles; Waste handling; Waste heat; Waste management;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 2007 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0524-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-323X
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2007.352721
