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    A primary (or portable or personal) life support system (or subsystem) (PLSS), is a device connected to an astronaut or cosmonaut's spacesuit, which allows...
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    A life-support system is the combination of equipment that allows survival in an environment or situation that would not support that life in its absence...
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    legs, and boots, and a Life Support System (LSS) which incorporates the Primary Life Support System (PLSS), electrical systems, and a Secondary Oxygen...
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  • Land Survey System, a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels Primary Life Support System, the life-support backpack of a...
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    Advanced trauma life support (ATLS) is a training program for medical providers in the management of acute trauma cases, developed by the American College...
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    the Skylab EMU, NASA elected to use an umbilical life support system named the Astronaut Life Support Assembly. The suits used during lunar EVAs had a...
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    breathing apparatus which is part of the Primary Life Support System of real space suits is always a rebreather type system. However, in illustrations in fiction...
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    Rebreather (redirect from Pendulum system)
    escape from a hazardous environment Primary life support system, also known as Portable Life Support System – Life support device for a space suit Self-contained...
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    survival systems weight: 64 lb (29 kg) Useful altitude: 98,000 ft (30 km) Primary life support: Externally to suit, vehicle provided Backup life support: 10...
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    8-12 the Extravehicular Life Support System (ELSS) was used. The ELSS was also designed to optionally supply autonomous life support though they never made...
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  • space suit/Primary Life Support System and produced environmental control, life support, mechanical systems, and thermal control systems for international...
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    Advanced Life Support (ALS) is a set of life saving protocols and skills that extend basic life support to further support the circulation and provide...
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  • Basic life support (BLS) is a level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening condition of cardiac arrest until they can be given...
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    International Space Station (ISS) Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is a life support system that provides or controls atmospheric pressure, fire...
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    Station, and the Apollo program, cooling was achieved in the Primary Life Support System by sublimation of water in a vacuum. In 1959 Hans Mauch was working...
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    resulting in a lower core temperature. The water then returns to the primary life support system (PLSS), where it is cooled in a heat exchanger before being recirculated...
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    operations. A life support technician is a person registered as competent to operate the life-support systems of a mixed gas saturation diving system. Divers...
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    activity (EVA) more complex space suits are worn, featuring a portable life support system. Pressure suits are in general needed at low pressure environments...
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  • A liver support system or diachysis is a type of therapeutic device to assist in performing the functions of the liver. Such systems focus either on removing...
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    Carbon dioxide scrubber (category Spacecraft life support systems)
    treat exhaust gases from industrial plants or from exhaled air in life support systems such as rebreathers or in spacecraft, submersible craft or airtight...
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    instead of the Primary Life Support System backpack worn by Apollo, Space Shuttle, and ISS crews, astronauts will rely on a life-support umbilical used...
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    Parachute and survival systems weight: 64 lb (29 kg) Total weight: 94 lb (42.6 kg) Primary life support: Vehicle Provided Backup life support: 10 minutes A navy...
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  • Integrated logistics support (ILS) is a technology in the system engineering to lower a product life cycle cost and decrease demand for logistics by the...
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    suits (at 59 kilograms (130 lb), with a 15 kilograms (33 lb) Primary Life Support System backpack), the Mark III is more mobile, and is designed for a...
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    Electoral systems using first-past-the-post for both primary and general elections often use the plurality-with-primaries or partisan two-round system, highlighting...
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    2.7 psi (18.6 kPa) Suit Weight: 40 lb (18 kg) Primary Life Support: Vehicle Provided Backup Life Support: Vehicle Provided Wikimedia Commons has media...
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  • A pipe support or pipe hanger is a designed element that transfer the load from a pipe to the supporting structures. The load includes the weight of the...
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  • Pediatric advanced life support (PALS) is a course offered by the American Heart Association (AHA) for health care providers who take care of children...
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    with relaxed man-loads Likely requirement for some back-mounted Primary Life Support System components, introducing challenges for achieving an optimal center...
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    sanitation systems and equipment function are monitored and controlled. The life support system is operated by the life-support technicians under the life-support...
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