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heng44 Member Posts: 3387 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001	posted 06-22-2018 02:23 PM Astronaut Ken Mattingly completed a verification test of the Apollo portable life support system (PLSS) flight unit on June 24, 1968. He spent four hours in the 8-foot altitude chamber of the Crew Systems Division at the Manned Spacecraft Center hooked up to the PLSS that Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart would use during EVA.
Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001	posted 06-24-2018 02:26 AM Looks exhausting...
LM-12 Member Posts: 3208 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010	posted 08-24-2018 05:11 AM Schweickart and Alan Bean conducted similar tests: Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, then assigned as Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) for Apollo 8 and scheduled to conduct the first Apollo EVA to test both the suit and the PLSS in space, conducted a three-hour chamber test on June 29. Later that day, Apollo 8 backup LMP Alan L. Bean completed a similar three-hour test. Mattingly was wearing Borman's spacesuit, according to the NASA website.

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