Abstract
An advanced Research Animal Holding Facility (RAHF) will be required for life Science experiments in the Space Station for the Study of space medicine and biology, etc. Key requirements for the RAHF include double isolation and biocontamination in the Space Station modules. The model developed here, consists of Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), experimental equipment and a mini-work station. The ECLSS is of fully-enclosed environmental control type. Physiological equipment is a telemetry Physiological Monitoring System (PMS). The mini-work station is used for integrated control of ECLSS and data management of physiological monitoring for the model of basic telescience execution. They have been conducted as mission verification experiments with the model equiped from 1986 to 1988. The experiments are duration feeding tests (for one and two months) in an enclosed environment using golden hamsters. Trace contaminants/odor data, hamster activity data, etc. are collected and analyzed. It was concluded that the fully-enclosed experiments were feasible with the flight model by using succesful waste managing systems.
