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483-5111 January % 1970
M_C 70-6
RELEASED BY NASA HEADQUARTERS
The National Aeronautics and Space Ad_inistration has signed a
supplemental agreement with Hamilton Standard Division_ United Aircraft
Corporation_ Windsor Locks_ Connecticut valued at $5,461,203
for changes in the Apollo portable life support system (PLSS) contract.
The agreement formally incorporates into the contract changes
permitting the PLSS to accept an improved communications system supplied
by NASA. The communications system was developed under a separate
contract with the Radio Corporation of America to permit two astronauts
to work simultaneously outside the spacecraft on the lunar surface.
The contract provides for addition of a carbon dioxide sensor
to the portable life support system beginning with the Apollo 14 mission.
It also incorporates previous modifications to ground support equipment
and requalification of the system completed prior to Apollo 11 for
increased vibration and thermal conditions.
The Apollo pop-table life support system is built by Hamilton
Standard at its Windsor Locks facility. The supplemental agreement
increases the total estimated value of the Hamilton Standard PLSS
contract to $53,1727186.
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