THERMAL COMFORT OF MAN IN WEIGHTLESSNESS
1981; Elsevier BV; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/b978-0-08-027340-2.50049-3
AutoresLudvik Novák, A. M. Genin, S Kozlowski,
Tópico(s)Spaceflight effects on biology
ResumoThermal microclimate is one of the most significant factors of outer environment that set long-time claims on the production of the energy that an organism must bring forth to maintain the body temperature within a required range. This chapter discusses an experiment "heat exchange-2" to verify the principle and reliability of the developed method for the assesement of man's thermal comfort in weightlessness. The principle used is a simultaneous measurement of the microclimate cooling effect by means of the electrical dynamic katathermometer (EDK) sensor together with the skin temperature measured by special thermistors with a constant pressure on the skin surface. The chapter discusses the scheme of the measurement of the skin temperature and the cooling power of the microclimate by means of the instrument EDK-IK in the Interkosmos experiment. The experiments were done on board of the soviet orbital laboratory Salyut-6 within the framework of the Interkosmos International Program of scientific cooperation by the cosmonauts and the members of the Interkosmos crews.
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