NASA May Test Advanced Life Support On ISS

By Frank Morring, Jr. .

NASA is considering a commercial proposal for long-term tests of advanced environmental control and life support system (ECLSS) hardware on the International Space Station (ISS), backing up the original station equipment with potentially more reliable life-support gear designed for human spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit.

Paragon Space Development Corp., a Tucson, Ariz.-based ...

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