Abstract
The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is a subsystem typical of crewed space vehicles which provides all the necessary conditions in order to make life in space possible. In its first section, this chapter places the focus on human life and the requirements which should be fulfilled in order to establish a human presence in space. The second section will discuss all tasks of a life support system resulting from these requirements. Moreover, different ways of classifying life support systems will be presented; available life support methods and technologies will be described and also some examples of life support system design will be given. The chapter will be concluded with an outlook on bioregenerative life support systems and how the subsystem “life support” is integrated in the overall system “space station”.
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