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Project Title:  Suited Contingency Ops Food - 2 Reduce
Fiscal Year: FY 2014 
Division: Human Research 
Research Discipline/Element:
HRP SHFH:Space Human Factors & Habitability (archival in 2017)
Start Date: 10/13/2012  
End Date: 10/01/2013  
Task Last Updated: 09/30/2013 
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Principal Investigator/Affiliation:   Glass, John  M.S. / MEI Technologies Inc./NASA Johnson Space Center 
Address:  18050 Saturn Lane, Suite 300 
 
Houston , TX 77058 
Email: john.w.glass@nasa.gov 
Phone: 281-283-6200  
Congressional District: 22 
Web:  
Organization Type: NASA CENTER 
Organization Name: MEI Technologies Inc./NASA Johnson Space Center 
Joint Agency:  
Comments:  
Co-Investigator(s)
Affiliation: 
Monica, Leong  Lockheed Martin 
Project Information: Grant/Contract No. Directed Research 
Responsible Center: NASA JSC 
Grant Monitor: Douglas, Grace  
Center Contact:  
grace.l.douglas@nasa.gov 
Unique ID: 8955 
Solicitation / Funding Source: Directed Research 
Grant/Contract No.: Directed Research 
Project Type: GROUND 
Flight Program:  
TechPort: No 
No. of Post Docs:
No. of PhD Candidates:
No. of Master's Candidates:
No. of Bachelor's Candidates:
No. of PhD Degrees:
No. of Master's Degrees:
No. of Bachelor's Degrees:
Human Research Program Elements: (1) SHFH:Space Human Factors & Habitability (archival in 2017)
Human Research Program Risks: None
Human Research Program Gaps: None
Flight Assignment/Project Notes: NOTE: Gap changes per IRP Rev E (Ed., 3/19/14)

NOTE: period of performance information updated per M. Canga/JSC (previously listed as 6/18/2012-9/30/2013)--Ed., 7/2/13

Task Description: Aims:

1. To develop food product parameters to meet nutritional, acceptability, stability, and suit interface criteria.

2. To test several concepts for dispensing liquid through a feed port into a pressurized suit.

AFT will receive energy requirements and nutritional requirements from HHC (Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory). The food parameters that enable compatibility with the in-suit feeding system will be defined by interfacing with Crew Survival Systems (CSS).

Rationale for HRP Directed Research: This research is directed because it contains highly constrained research, which requires focused and constrained data gathering and analysis that is more appropriately obtained through a non-competitive proposal.

Research Impact/Earth Benefits:

Task Progress & Bibliography Information FY2014 
Task Progress: In a contingency cabin depressurization event, it is expected that crewmembers would be in a pressurized suit for up to 144 hours, requiring nutrition to be safely delivered against a pressure differential of 4 psi. The Advanced Food Technology (AFT) group sought to develop both a prototype fluid delivery system that would overcome the pressure differential and guidelines for a nutritional beverage compatible with the delivery system. Two prototypes were developed and analyzed. The bag-in-bag (BiB) prototype, designed to equalize the suit pressure with the beverage pouch and enable a crewmember to drink normally, was operated successfully in both vacuum chamber and suited subject tests. The Boa restrainer pouch, designed to provide mechanical leverage to overcome the pressure differential, was not successful, and recommendations for improved performance have been offered. Guidelines for developing contingency beverage prototypes, including viscosity and rehydration properties, were compiled based on their compatibility with the delivery hardware. Contingency beverage shelf life predictions were calculated based on generated vapor sorption isotherm curves. Evaluation results and food product parameters have the potential to be used to improve future prototype designs and develop complete nutritional beverages for contingency events and extended EVAs.

Bibliography: Description: (Last Updated: ) 

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 None in FY 2014
Project Title:  Suited Contingency Ops Food - 2 Reduce
Fiscal Year: FY 2013 
Division: Human Research 
Research Discipline/Element:
HRP SHFH:Space Human Factors & Habitability (archival in 2017)
Start Date: 10/13/2012  
End Date: 10/01/2013  
Task Last Updated: 09/14/2012 
Download report in PDF pdf
Principal Investigator/Affiliation:   Glass, John  M.S. / MEI Technologies Inc./NASA Johnson Space Center 
Address:  18050 Saturn Lane, Suite 300 
 
Houston , TX 77058 
Email: john.w.glass@nasa.gov 
Phone: 281-283-6200  
Congressional District: 22 
Web:  
Organization Type: NASA CENTER 
Organization Name: MEI Technologies Inc./NASA Johnson Space Center 
Joint Agency:  
Comments:  
Project Information: Grant/Contract No. Directed Research 
Responsible Center: NASA JSC 
Grant Monitor: Douglas, Grace  
Center Contact:  
grace.l.douglas@nasa.gov 
Unique ID: 8955 
Solicitation / Funding Source: Directed Research 
Grant/Contract No.: Directed Research 
Project Type: GROUND 
Flight Program:  
TechPort: No 
No. of Post Docs:  
No. of PhD Candidates:  
No. of Master's Candidates:  
No. of Bachelor's Candidates:  
No. of PhD Degrees:  
No. of Master's Degrees:  
No. of Bachelor's Degrees:  
Human Research Program Elements: (1) SHFH:Space Human Factors & Habitability (archival in 2017)
Human Research Program Risks: None
Human Research Program Gaps: None
Flight Assignment/Project Notes: NOTE: period of performance information updated per M. Canga/JSC (previously listed as 6/18/2012-9/30/2013)--Ed., 7/2/13

Task Description: Aims:

1. To develop food product parameters to meet nutritional, acceptability, stability, and suit interface criteria.

2. To test several concepts for dispensing liquid through a feed port into a pressurized suit.

AFT will receive energy requirements and nutritional requirements from HHC (Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory). The food parameters that enable compatibility with the in-suit feeding system will be defined by interfacing with Crew Survival Systems (CSS).

Rationale for HRP Directed Research: This research is directed because it contains highly constrained research, which requires focused and constrained data gathering and analysis that is more appropriately obtained through a non-competitive proposal.

Research Impact/Earth Benefits:

Task Progress & Bibliography Information FY2013 
Task Progress: New project for FY2012.

Bibliography: Description: (Last Updated: ) 

Show Cumulative Bibliography
 
 None in FY 2013