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What process was used for cooling apollo space suits?

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Some cooling liquid is pumped and circulated through the space suits.Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment Most long underwear keeps people warm. This underwear keeps spacewalkers cool. It is made of stretchy spandex material. It has 91.5 meters, or 300 feet, of narrow tubes throughout. Water is pumped through the tubes near the spacewalker's skin. read more

In a dependent space suit (such as the ones used in the Gemini program or within lunar orbit on the Apollo program), the heat is carried back to a host spacecraft through an umbilical connection, where it is ultimately radiated or sublimated via the spacecraft's own thermal control system. read more

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