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   Henry Spencer to alexterrell@yahoo.com   
   Re: forming composit space station skin    
   13 Feb 05 20:10:47   
   
   XPost: misc.misc   
   From: henry@spsystems.net   
      
   In article <1108237690.890145.28840@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,   
     wrote:   
   >I was thinking you'd have an Everest Atmoshpere, about 1/3 bar. Up the   
   >oxygen content a little, and then provide the mechanics with an oxygen   
   >bleeder just under the nose. Would that work?   
      
   You'd be better off to just make it pure oxygen like Apollo, or oxygen   
   with a little bit of nitrogen like Skylab.  Then no supplementary oxygen   
   would be needed.   
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