| 29 Mar 2018 |
 darenwelsh | I don't know how kiwix generates its rendering of each page, so I don't know | 15:21:07 |
 cicalese | Question from Kiwix meeting: what hardware? | 15:21:08 |
| darenwelsh | for what, the server? or what hardware do we have on ISS? | 15:21:54 |
| darenwelsh | That's something I don't exactly know, but Andy Rechenberg knows. I can get that info later. | 15:22:32 |
| darenwelsh | (for on-ISS hardware) | 15:22:39 |
| cicalese | Kiwix says: “We use internally the x86_64/Linux version, and we think this is stable. But, we should make additional tests for the Windows version, for example.” | 15:22:45 |
 dstrine | hi all | 15:23:09 |
| cicalese | ok, thankx | 15:23:15 |
| cicalese | ok, thanks | 15:23:29 |
 Bryan Hilderbrand | What are the shiny watch like things on the astronauts hands? | 15:46:03 |
| darenwelsh | they have wrist mirrors that allow the to read the front-facing items on their suit | 15:46:45 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | "booties on the cuties"! Or something like that :) | 15:48:05 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | Cool, thanks Daren | 15:48:12 |
| darenwelsh | ha! | 15:48:21 |
| darenwelsh | booties on the QDs | 15:48:24 |
| darenwelsh | QD = Quick Disconnect | 15:48:29 |
| darenwelsh | though these are anything but quick | 15:48:34 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | QDs | 15:48:45 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | What is the preparation from the astronauts side for this? Full replication underwater or full review of James' procedure. Either way, is there some back-and-forth revisions? | 15:59:54 |
| darenwelsh | To develop the procedures, it can take anywhere from a few weeks (for an emergency turnaround) to a year or more (for a nominal planned set of tasks). James did most of that work, getting info from engineering documents and development runs in the NBL (the big pool). There are reviews of the procedure where we solicit feedback from engineering and other flight control disciplines. The crew also weigh in on the choreography. Typically, the procedure development involves other crew members that are not the ones who will perform the EVA on orbit. | 16:04:00 |
| darenwelsh | The crew training starts with about 2 years of basic training and then an additional 2 years of mission-specific training. In that final training, they might see some specific details of the tasks for an EVA, but that's not the usual case. They are given a couple weeks onboard ISS to review the procedures that James wrote before the EVA day. | 16:04:51 |
| darenwelsh | We usually have 3-4 video conferences with the crew on ISS to answer questions and walk them through some of the finer details | 16:05:12 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | Awesome! Thanks! | 16:06:28 |
 hexmode | dstrine: sorry I missed the meeting. I thought it was later in the day and overslept | 16:14:53 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | BOOM! EVA shout out! | 16:19:58 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | And ROBO I think. | 16:20:24 |
| Bryan Hilderbrand | Possibly reference to the Wiki during the Twitter Q&A? | 16:28:09 |
| darenwelsh | some more insider info .... The suits are designed to supply oxygen and scrub out CO2 for a 6:30 EVA assuming a certain level of metabolic activity. But if the crew member has a high metabolic rate or works too hard, especially early in the EVA, it can reduce the overall duration of EVA time due to the suit | 16:28:25 |
| darenwelsh | suit's ability to scrub CO2 | 16:28:31 |
| darenwelsh | So in today's EVA, they are up against a reduced EVA time. They're currently at about 5:50 EVA time due to this limited CO2 scrubbing ability. | 16:29:03 |
