Design Concepts for the Centrifuge Facility Life Sciences Glovebox 891527
The Life Sciences Glovebox will provide the bioisolated environment to support on-orbit operations involving non-human live specimens and samples for human life sciences experiments. It will be part of the Centrifuge Facility, in which animal and plant specimens are housed in bioisolated Habitat modules and transported to the Glovebox as part of the experiment protocols supported by the crew. At the Glovebox, up to two crew members and two Habitat modules must be accommodated to provide flexibility and support optimal operations. This paper will present several innovative design concepts that attempt to satisfy the basic Glovebox requirements. These concepts were evaluated for ergonomics and ease of operations using computer modeling and full-scale mockups. The more promising ideas were presented to scientists and astronauts for their evaluation. Their comments, and the results from other evaluations are presented. Based on the evaluations, the authors recommend designs and features that will help optimize crew performance and facilitate science accommodations, and specify problem areas that require further study.
Citation: Sun, S., Horkachuck, M., and McKeown, K., "Design Concepts for the Centrifuge Facility Life Sciences Glovebox," SAE Technical Paper 891527, 1989, https://doi.org/10.4271/891527. Download Citation
Author(s):
Sidney C. Sun, Michael J. Horkachuck, Kellie A. McKeown
Affiliated:
NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA
Pages: 15
Event:
Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
SAE Transactions Journal of Aerospace-V98-1
Related Topics:
Biological sciences
Computer simulation
Optimization
Ergonomics
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