Paul Haimes, vice president EMEAI Solutions Consulting, PTC

For an astronaut working in space, perhaps as far away as 240,000 miles from Planet Earth, the design of the life support backpack that provides them with oxygen, heating and cooling inside of their spacesuits couldn’t be more important.

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