PLSS control panel

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The PLSS control panel is the interface on an Apollo spacesuit that allowed astronauts to monitor and manage their life-support backpack systems during lunar missions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Apollo program equipment
control panel
spacesuit subsystem interface
associatedWith Oxygen Purge System
Primary Life Support System
controls oxygen flow
ventilation flow
water cooling flow
designedFor operation with pressurized gloves
developedFor Apollo lunar missions
linked to: Apollo program

NASA
environment extravehicular activity
lunar surface vacuum
era 1960s
early 1970s
function allow manual adjustment of suit consumables
control life-support backpack systems
monitor life-support backpack systems
provide status indications to astronaut
hasComponent caution and warning indicators
communications controls
indicator lights
oxygen purge system controls
pressure gauge
quantity gauge
rotary controls
selector switches
warning flags
interfaceType mechanical gauges and switches
locatedOn front of the Apollo spacesuit torso
manufacturer Hamilton Standard
linked to: Hamilton Sundstrand
missionExamples Apollo 11 EVAs
linked to: Apollo 11

Apollo 12 EVAs
Apollo 15 EVAs
Apollo 17 EVAs
monitors battery status
cooling water quantity
oxygen pressure
oxygen quantity
suit pressure
partOf Apollo lunar extravehicular mobility unit
linked to: Apollo spacesuit

Portable Life Support System
safetyRole enable emergency oxygen purge activation
provide warnings of low battery power
provide warnings of low cooling water
provide warnings of low oxygen
usedDuring Apollo lunar surface EVAs
Apollo program
usedOn Apollo spacesuit
user Apollo astronaut

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Apollo spacesuit hasComponent PLSS control panel