1. AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design 1 Life Support System Timothy Szamborski 18 January 2005 Human Factors – Team Leader Evaluation of Methods to Create Artificial Gravity Life Support System – Closed system

2. AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Closed Life Support System

3. AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Important Parameters for System Need ~40 m^2 / CM, or ~160 m^2 total (~164.8m^3). Total Mass = 101.5 kg/m^2, or 16,240 kg Power = 2.6 kW/m^2, or 416kW 15-25 deg C (Dark Cycle) 16-35 deg C (Light Cycle)

4. AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Potential Foods to Harvest Wheat Rice White Potato Sweet Potato Peanut Soybean Dry bean Tomato Radish Carrot Cabbage Spinach Onion Lettuce

5. AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Human Inputs Oxygen Dry Food Food/Drinking water Hand/Face/Shower/ clothes/dish water Urine/Comode Flush water Total 0.83(kg/person/day) 0.62 3.55 25.16 0.49 31.01 kg/person/day

6. AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design Human Outputs CO_2 Gray Water (dishes/clothes/hygiene/ shower) Feces/Urine/sweat Total 1.00(kg/person/day) 26.08 3.96 31.04 kg/person/day

7. AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design References  “Advanced Life Support – Baseline Values and Assumptions Document”. Crew and Thermal Systems Division, Johnson Space Center, JSC- 47804. 8 May 2002  “Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space”. National Research Council. 1997.  “Space Flight”. Adams, Carsbie C. 1958

8. AAE 450 – Spacecraft Design References  Plants and Water http://center.e- enterprise.purdue.edu/wps/portal/.cmd/cs/.ce/155/. s/2022/_s.155/2022  Masses of Different Plants http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_materials.htm