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.