The United States Atmosphere Revitalization life support system on the International Space Station (ISS) performs several services for the crew including oxygen generation, trace contaminant control, carbon dioxide (CO2) ...

Currently the primary evaluation scheme for comparison of life support systems is Equivalent System Mass (ESM). ESM can be used to identify the most efficient or least costly-to-launch option when selecting a solution from ...

Without a vastly improved cabin air CO2 removal system technology, deep space missions will not be plausible. The carbon dioxide removal assembly (CDRA) on ISS has repeated replacement and maintenance costs due to adsorbent ...

Final Frontier Design (FFD) is in development of their EVA space suit system. The philosophy is to develop a simple, light weight, low cost, and limited use EVA system with a maximum use of 20 EVAs and no return-to-Earth ...

NASA has embarked on the mission to enable humans to explore deep space, including the goal of sending humans to Mars. This journey will require significant developments in a wide range of technical areas as resupply and ...

The European Space Agency has a vision for a collaborative multi-national village to establish a long-term human settlement on the Moon, building on the legacy established by ISS operations. Medical planning and life support ...

The International Space Station (ISS) was designed to have the cabin air filtered through High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters which filter out particles and bacteria to protect the crew and downstream condensing ...

NASA has plans to go back to the Moon. In order to do this, a new spacesuit is being designed for microgravity, cislunar, and lunar surface exploration. The design for the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) ...

A reliable, efficient, cost-effective carbon dioxide (CO2) removal and dehumidification system is needed for deep space exploration. Current CO2 removal technology on the International Space Station (ISS) utilizes solid ...

Nov 20th, 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of construction of the International Space Station. Major events include NASA direction to study system dormancy as it would relate to a short term de-crewing of ...