[sarex] Calibrating Space

Engineers at Hamilton Sundstrand keep astronauts comfortable by calibrating systems that test environmental controls in spacecraft and space suits.

Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor -- Test & Measurement World, 10/1/2006

Windsor Locks, CT—Space is one hostile environment. There’s no air to breathe nor gravity to hold you down. Temperatures are frigid where the sun doesn’t shine and burning hot where it does. Anything that generates heat has no air to cool it. Thus, equipment and astronauts would overheat without proper cooling.

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