- Author
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McLaughlan, P. B.
- Title
- NASA Fireman's Breathing System Program: A Status Report.
- Coporate
- Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
- Report
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Status Report
March 19, 1973
24 p.
- Keywords
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self contained breathing apparatus
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fire fighters
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protective clothing
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brathing apparatus
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life support systems
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space suits
- Identifiers
- NASA qualifications and experience; program objective and plan; system definition
- Abstract
- In recent years there has been a growing demand within the fire service for improved protective equipment. This has coincided with an increased public desire to make use of technology developed by our nation's aerospace programs. NASA, of course, has had a long standing Technology Utilization Program aimed at making its advanced technology available to the public. NASA's involvement in a program to develop a better breathing system for firefighters was initiated by an inquiry from the Boston Fire Department to Senator Edward Kennedy outlining their needs for an improved breathing system and suggesting that NASA lend some of its expertise to the problem. Senator Kennedy passed this along to NASA Headquarters which in turn requrested that Crew Systems Division at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) determine the feasibility of an improved breathing system. This was considered feasible and Crew Systems Division is now well into a program to develop wuch a system. It is the purpose of this report to outline the overall objectives of this program, and to describe its progress to date and its future direction.