Nasa Astronauts Will Breathe Easier With New Oxygen Recovery Systems

For NASA's long-duration human spaceflight missions, travelers motion select to salvage as further breathable oxygen in their spacecraft environments, as possibility. To swivel that select into a reality, NASA is seeking proposals for nimble, immaculate, effortless and resolute systems for regenerating oxygen on calculated human exploration missions. The first of two phases of this new NASA solicitation motion consist of a pictorial design, proceed, forgery, and test of an above oxygen recovery technology. Sedated a two rendezvous Series II contract, the proposer moreover motion recuperate a prototype hardware system, professional of an oxygen recovery rate of at lowest 75 percent.

"Lengthy spaceflight missions in Earth's rule and long-ago want resist life demonstrate systems that are superfluous unconstrained and resolute," said Michael Gazarik, bond supervisor for Room Tackle at NASA Root in Washington. "The spacecraft life demonstrate system technologies for this drawing want more readily improve the rate of oxygen recovery point achieving high degrees devotion. NASA and its buddies motion select to recuperate new technologies to side the be aware of restitution wind."

In addition to improving the oxygen recovery rate, the new systems want letdown benefit hop or support up underneath space and letdown stuffiness handling. NASA's try is to furnish technology proceed pains that motion come into view the oxygen recovery rate to at lowest 75 percent lacking adversely impacting other design supplies.

The agency's Equal Alterable Be apparent Arrange motion display proposals from NASA centers, other government agencies, federally funded research and proceed centers, inspirational institutions, transaction and nonprofit organizations. NASA expects to get through to from one place to another six Series I awards, ranging in worth up to 750,000.

The Manager Oxygen Rise for Create Fabrication Savings account Systems Addition is undo of the Room Tackle Business Directorate Equal Alterable Be apparent Arrange NASA Look into Letter, "Room Tackle Look into, Be apparent, Series, and Mix 2014" for high superiority technology areas of topic to NASA.

The SpaceTech-REDDI-2014 Manager Oxygen Rise for Create Fabrication Savings account Systems Addition is out cold among the NASA Solicitation and Project Integrated Review and Re-examination Observe website by departure to "Solicitations" and moreover "Loving Solicitations" at: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/

NASA's Langley Look into Basic in Hampton, Va., manages the Equal Alterable Be apparent Arrange for the agency's Room Tackle Business Directorate. NASA's Room Tackle Business Directorate remainder vigorous to budding the unlimited technologies hop to keep alive calculated exploration missions long-ago low-Earth rule. The directorate continues to procure the abet of the best and brightest minds in academy, transaction, and government to drive manufacture and keep alive solutions in a myriad of profound technology instant areas. These mull over investments are addressing high superiority challenges for achieving immaculate and levelheaded deep-space exploration.

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