Portable Life Support System
Astronauts on the Moon wore this type of Personal Life Support System (PLSS), built by Hamilton Standard, which contained critical elements of their personal spacecraft. It circulated water and air, transmitted communications, and "scrubbed" oxygen of deadly carbon dioxide gas.
Image Number: NASM2014-05221
Credit: Image by Dane Penland, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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