Based on systems that maintain safe temperatures inside NASA spacesuits, a pioneering company developed lightweight, therapeutic cooling and heating suits to provide comfort and healing to people suffering from heat stress and other ailments. Another branch of these technologies includes deep-tissue warmth and stimulation treatments for muscular stress therapy.
The first liquid cooling garments were developed by the British Royal Air Force for pilots sweltering in hot cockpits. Worn under the uniform, they consisted of tubes threaded through long underwear with water pumped through them and cooled by a heat exchanger. The U.S. Air Force, which managed the planning for the Mercury missions until NASA was formed, soon began modifying the design for spacesuits. Since then, NASA has used cooling suits to help regulate astronauts' temperatures in the extremes of space.
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