• Cutaway view of life support system, a large set of wires and tubes attached to multiple cylinders, and oxygen purge system, which features multiple smaller cylinders around a green tube.
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    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. 

  • Cutaway view of life support system, a large set of wires and tubes attached to multiple cylinders, and oxygen purge system, which features multiple smaller cylinders around a green tube.

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