RAHF Pictures and Repair

1/15/98 Hello again

I hope you had a nice holiday season.

I have just finished MITS training. This is a training effort where NASA simulates the mission experiments with all parties involved. We practiced working on experiments with the crew for Flight Day 15 of the mission, and we practiced working through hardware failures including the RAHF. During Web chat I can answer more questions on this.

KSC [Kennedy Space Center] is presently fixing our light bulb problem, and I am nervous about how the fix will work. This is an area for redesign for future flights.

KSC is also monitoring our water in the RAHFs making sure the bacteria count stays low. If the bacteria grows, then we will have to drain, flush and refill.

Earlier this week I had a good meeting with one of our scientists, Paul.

Thats all for now...
I will talk to you again next week....
Below are some pictures.

These are various pictures of the area where we have the light socket problem. The slots you see are where the cages slide into.

Without lightbulbs	With lightbulbs

This picture came entitled:
How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

Click on each picture to see a larger, more detailed version.