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General Inquiry: Associate Director, Engineering Directorate
Phone: 281.483.8991
Email: jsc-ea-partnerships@mail.nasa.gov
Mailing Address:
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Johnson Space Center
Mail Code: EA
2101 NASA Parkway
Houston, Texas 77058
JSC Engineering Web Address:
jsceng.nasa.gov
Test Facilities Guide
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Space Station Collaborators
Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP)
Life Support Systems & Enviromental Control
- Space Suits
- Extra Vehicular Activity
- Regeneration
- Waste Management
- Habitats
Habitats
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Johnson Space Center Engineering is the world leader in human spaceflight for space suits, extravehicular activity, environmental control, and regenerations systems. Space suits are unique because they are miniature, customized spacecraft. Providing protection, mobility, and life support to the crew during spacewalks is a requirement that all space suits must meet.
Experience has given us unique knowledge in the areas of air quality, potable water, urine monitoring, regenerative fluids, and hygiene activities. This knowledge supports human spacecraft design, space-system hardware design, flight-like simulation and testing of extravehicular activity hardware and operations, thermal systems hardware, environmental control systems, and integrated systems testing in pressures ranging from vacuum to one atmosphere.
Capabilities
Life Support Systems & Environmental Control Facilities
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Air Revitalization Technology Evaluation Facility
A test facility for evaluating air revitalization technology in the functional areas of CO2 Removal, CO2 Reduction, O2 generation, Trace Contaminant Control.
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Advanced Water Recovery Systems Development Laboratory
Wastewater pretreatment, primary processor technologies, brine water recovery, post-processors, water filtration, and personal hygiene studies. Biosafety Level 2 microbiology laboratory.
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Gas Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry
Qualitative and quantitative analyses of trace components such as Freons, hydrocarbons, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and helium in the ppm range.
Life Support Systems & Environmental Control Hardware
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Crew and Payload Equipment
The Coldbag is designed to carry scientific samples or canisters at controlled temperatures.
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Space Suits
JSC is the world leader in design, development, testing & verification, and implementation of space suit and launch & entry suit hardware.
Partnership Agreements Inquiry
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Featured Engineering Projects
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Space Exploration Vehicle
Next generation vehicle for space exploration.
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Robonaut 2 →
Robonaut 2 (R2) is the first humanoid robot in space.
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Project Morpheus →
Morpheus is a vertical test bed demonstrating new green propellant propulsion systems and autonomous landing and hazard detection technology.
JSC Capabilities Website
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For more information about other capabilites available at JSC, please visit the JSC Human Spaceflight Capabilities website.