Human exploration of deep space will require Environmental Control and Life Support Systems of increasing dependability as mission duration and distance from Earth increases. As crews travel to distant unexplored environments, ...

NASA programs are maturing technologies and system architectures to enabling future exploration missions to Mars and in cislunar space. The future life support system is one of many technical focal areas. As the core life ...

Volatile methyl siloxanes (VMS) arise from diverse, pervasive sources aboard crewed spacecraft ranging from materials offgassing to volatilization from personal care products. These sources lead to a persistent VMS compound ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s life support community has made significant progress in the last year advancing key technologies and capabilities to enable future exploration missions. Technology gap ...

The air quality control equipment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and future deep space exploration vehicles provide the vital function of maintaining a clean cabin environment for the crew and the hardware. ...

The Mars transit tanks will probably be titanium lined, composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) similar to those used in the space shuttle and International Space Station (ISS). Since the mass of a storage tank is ...

Final Frontier Design (FFD) has continued development and testing of their Intra-Vehicular Activity (IVA) space suit. Multiple hardware elements of the suit and associated system have been developed and refined. An ...

During the development of human space exploration, the idea of simulating the Earth’s biosphere to provide human life support led to the convergence of space biology and the field of ecology to develop closed manmade ...

Human exploration of the solar system is an ambitious goal. Future missions to Mars or other planets will require the cooperation of many nations. Exploration concepts have been gathered by the International Space ...

The Advanced Closed-Loop System ACLS is a regenerative life support system for closed habitats. With regenerative processes the ACLS covers the life support functions of CO2 removal, Oxygen generation and CO2 Reprocessing. ACLS ...