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TIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
MANNED AFT ,
SPACECNTER _11, Texas
483-5111 February 10, 1970
MSC 70- 23
HOUSTON_ TEXAS--The National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Manned Spacecraft Center has invited 14 firms to submit proposals for
an engineering study on a space environment in which the "average"
person could work, sleep, eat, and relax comfortably and efficiently
over long periods of time.
The objective of the study will be %o prepare handbooks to be
used as basic criteria for architectural design, compartment utilization,
volume, lighting, acoustics, temperature, and color for extraterrestrial
living environments. The handbooks will present standards setting
maximmm, minimum, and desired ranges.
The study will relate these standards to space stations with 6 to
100 crewmen, up to 400,000 cubic feet of volume and designed for missions
lasting as long as 10 years; to logistic spacecraft with 2 to 12 crewnen,
up to 10,000 cubic feet of room and an orbital stay time of seven days; and
to planetary space vehicles with 6 to 12 orewmen_ up to 307000 cubic feet
of volume and designed for missions lasting as long as 1,040 days.
The request for proposals notes that operating in new and strange
environments is not new to man. Enormous amounts of data have been
compiled to reflect the lighting, acoustics, temperatures and color
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