I'm sorry, did you intend to link to a page that discusses the passage diameter requirements for internally transferring a US EVA EMU between two docked vehicles? (I don't see that on the docking page you linked....)
Let's be pedantically clear, shall we? The docking rings are the metal cylinders that when pressed together form the atmospheric seal that allows a pressurized connection between two docked vehicles. For the IDA and lots of other standards, the inner diameter of those rings is specified to be 800mm. (Sure, the spec gives you a tiny bit of leeway -- after all none of us are perfect! )Robotbeat correctly points out that the APAS docking rings also have 800mm inner diameters. Yet he and I both think ISS EMU hardware was brought through those rings from Shuttle to ISS. For the NASA EMU HUT is that truly possible, or are we mis-remembering that part of ISS history? Exact clearances required for transferring a NASA HUT are not easy to find....(BTW an Orlan "obviously" fits through a 800mm docking connection! This is of interest in the context of a NASA BLEO habitat because one would want to know if the diameters of the resupply vehicle connections need to be larger than what IDA provides.)Hope that clarifies the question!
64 probe and drogue on the Russian side. 1 APAS-95 on pma-3, and 1 IDA on PMA-3
This does not show where they are located.
Where are they on this drawing?See the attachment.
It seems to me that whenever I see pictures or video in the station there is almost always (at least to my somewhat borderline OCD eyes) a high level of clutter on nearly every surface. Is all that stuff in active, regular use? Or does it accumulate and and gets addressed/put away/circle filed when the astros have time? Is there a protocol for managing all that stuff?
Quote from: yokem55 on 12/06/2016 12:15 amIt seems to me that whenever I see pictures or video in the station there is almost always (at least to my somewhat borderline OCD eyes) a high level of clutter on nearly every surface. Is all that stuff in active, regular use? Or does it accumulate and and gets addressed/put away/circle filed when the astros have time? Is there a protocol for managing all that stuff?I have not found any real protocol for this. It bothers the hell out of me as well.I'm developing a protocol for the H-10-K GWS house keeping crew to perform routine "return to storage" tasks but nothing is cast in stone so far. The difficulty seems to be getting the time built into the task or experiment to perform end of shift cleanup tasks much like what is done in the ground facilities. CTK Tool and parts accountability is vital for FOD prevention.It looks like they clean up only when things seem to get out of hand, or when flight directs them to do so.