| 词条 | Mobile quarantine facility | |||||||||||||||
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The mobile quarantine facility (MQF) is a converted Airstream trailer used by NASA to quarantine astronauts returning from Apollo lunar missions for the first few days after splashdown. The MQF was on the aircraft carrier that picked up the capsule. Once the aircraft carrier reached port, the MQF was flown to Houston, and the crew served the remainder of the 21 days of quarantine in the Lunar Receiving Lab at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The purpose of the quarantine was to prevent the spread of any contagions from the moon, though the existence of such contagions was considered unlikely. It functioned by maintaining a lower pressure inside and filtering any air vented.[1] In June of 1967, NASA awarded contract to design and build the four MQF's to Melpar, Inc., of Falls Church, VA. Lawrence K. Eliason was the head project manager. The MQF contained living and sleeping facilities as well as communications equipment which the astronauts used to converse with their families. The Apollo 11 crew also used this equipment to speak with President Nixon who personally welcomed them back to Earth aboard the recovery ship USS Hornet after splashdown. The trailers housed the three crew as well as a physician and an engineer who ran the MQF and powered down the command module. Four MQFs were built for NASA:
The quarantine requirement was eliminated following Apollo 14 once it was proven the moon was sterile and that the facilities were therefore unnecessary.[5] External links
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References{{Commons category}}1. ^{{cite web|url=http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19740677000|title=Mobile Quarantine Facility|work=Collections Database|publisher=National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution}} {{Apollo program hardware}}2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.spacecamp.com/webmail/newsletter0907/ |title=Space Camp Newsletter: Mobile Quarantine Facility |date=September 2007 |accessdate=February 16, 2011}} 3. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000587.html |title=Topic: Apollo 12 MQF trailer resurfaces |last1=Pearlman |first1=Robert |date=August 11, 2007 |publisher=CollectSpace |accessdate=February 16, 2011}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/hornet/|title= Wired Science News for Your Neurons Splashdown! The Ship That Picked Up the Apollo 11 Astronauts|date=July 2009|publisher=Wired!|first=Betsy|last=Mason}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/attm/a11.jh.3.html |title=After Splashdown |date=July 1999 |work=Apollo to the Moon |publisher=National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution |deadurl=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040224061811/http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/attm/a11.jh.3.html |archivedate=February 24, 2004 }} 1 : Apollo program hardware |
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