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ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS PROGRAM OVERVIEW.  K. M. Hurlbert. EC2/Thermal Systems and Engineering Support Branch, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.

   The Advanced Life Support (ALS) Flight Experiments Program provides for the design, development and testing of flight experiments using NASA's KC-135 aircraft and on-orbit vehicles (e.g., Space Shuttle) in support of ALS technology demonstrations in the relevant mission environment.  This presentation provides an overview of the planned 2001-2006 program, including the major objectives, a description of each flight experiment to be completed, and details on the implementation process.  Near term program emphasis (i.e., for fiscal year 2002) is the ALS KC-135 Flight Experiment Initiative, which was developed due to a lack of manifesting opportunities for ALS payloads on-orbit.  Details on previous and planned KC-135 test projects are given to allow ALS Principal Investigators to consider this type of research opportunity in developing their specific technologies. 

     (Supported by NASA:  ALS Program Office, NAG 9-1328, NCC 105-2, NAG 9-1284)