[XBob]

53 - Thanks for the post/ping.

LOL - "NASA astronaut Michael Foale and Russian Alexander Kaleri, aboard the station since October, have removed the defective hose used to help keep air and condensation out of the windows around the laboratory.

Newman said there were no spare hoses on the station, but there was no hurry to replace it as its absence posed no danger. "

#1 - So now we are going to have frozen windows break out, instead of leaky hoses.

#2 - Why in the world are the hoses leaking to the 'outside'? We have hoses outside?

#3 - Why have we no 'spare' hoses? Flex hoses are notorious for leaking - NO SPARE Hoses on board ????? LOL (cry cry)

[snopercod]

I 'm not familiar with this particular system. On the shuttle, we had the WCCS [Window Condensation Control System], but it was entirely inside the pressure vessel. I didn't know anything about that one either, because it had no moving parts and required no human input.

All it consisted of was some nitrogen regulators and tubing that purged the space between the three-pane windows with dry nitrogen. I don't know whether the system discharged to the outside or back into the crew module.

I don't think the window will crack, but it will certainly ice up due to the moisture in the module.

[Johnny_Cipher]

#3 - Why have we no 'spare' hoses? Flex hoses are notorious for leaking - NO SPARE Hoses on board ????? LOL (cry cry)

An even better question - why the heck wasn't this hose designed to be grabbed in the first place? Surely somebody must have known it would be used for exactly that purpose when this white elephant was designed.