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._,TIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE NISTRATION<br />

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483-5111 July 15, <strong>1970</strong><br />

MSC 70-81<br />

HOUSTON_ TEXAS--The Manned Spacecraft Center has awarded a contract<br />

to the Fairchild Hiller Corporation for a food systems study that could be<br />

used on an Earth-orbiting space station.<br />

The study will be conducted at the firm's Republic Aviation Division_<br />

Farmingdale_ New York with emphasis placed on mechanics of food systems<br />

rather than caloric requirements.<br />

Concepts of systems scheduled for investigation include packaging_<br />

stora_e_ reprocessing_ focd t_e selection and cleanup procedures.<br />

MSC has allocated $87_410 for use in the study. It is a fixed price<br />

contract_ and is to be completed by January 31, 1971.<br />

Personnel from the Medical Research and Operations and Engineering<br />

and Development Directorates jointly are monitoring the program.<br />

The study is planned for a 12-man station which could be operational<br />

in the late-<strong>1970</strong>'s.<br />

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