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The Gas of Life (1958-00-00)
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The importance of oxygen in sustaining life is explored, along with the need to exchange it for waste carbon dioxide in a closed ecological system, such as a Sealed Cabin in space. Dr. Myers explains his research on the possibility of performing this exchange by photosynthesis, using algae suspended in a nutrient solution, and demonstrates a laboratory model of such a system in which he has kept a mouse alive for many weeks with algae as its only source of oxygen. This work is performed by Dr. Myers under contract with the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. Dr. Jack Myers is Chief of the Laboratory of Algae Physiology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Dr. Myers is well known for his experiments with algae from the sea as a possible source of food for increasing world populations. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Directors & creators
KUHT-TV (Television station : Houston, Tex.)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Oxygen, Space medicine, Astronautics, Respiration, Space flight, Life support systems, History of science, Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier, Hubertus Strughold, Sealed cabin, Photosynthesis, Algae, Space biology, Combustion, Atmospheric pressure, Spacecraft design, Earth's atmosphere, Planets, Science education, Gas exchange, Aerospace medicine, Space environment, Biological science, Human survival in space
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