We didn't notice much of a difference
the biggest difference was after everybody left
and there were the normal six people,
we had to clean quite a bit.
There was a lot of cleaning for the weekend
it was like woah okay let's clean
wow three hours and I'm still cleaning.
Like cleaning like really dirty?
Or cleaning like let’s put stuff away?
Well, you know, wiping.
You have nine people
and you know everybody's drinking coffee.
There was more food being opened.
It's a curve.
When you’re new the splatter of tomato sauce is considerably more.
Yes.
It's like, oh tomato soup.
Boom!
It’s the big bang of tomato sauce on the ceiling.
Have they been replaced?
Some of the surfaces in Node 1?
I can tell you,
they're better than they used to be, but they are…
Plastic now?
It looks to me that they are plastic on top of old ones
because they are still nasty.
They’re still alien looking.
Because we changed some of them
I remember with Shane.
I don't know.
How were they for you?
Yeah.
Plastic but nasty sometimes.
I mean we tried to…
But cleanable now?
They’re still nasty.
But still lots of corners and edges and surfaces.
That seem to attract tomato soup.
The seat tracks.
If there is one place where it's going to go,
it’s going to go in the seat tracks.
And the craziness is,
you pay attention right?
You pay a lot of attention to your food.
Nevertheless, on Saturday you clean,
you see stuff and it must bounce,
right?
Because it goes to some areas that are completely unexposed to food.
The famous bouncing tomato sauce.
The bounce of the tomato sauce, right?
It's a known thing.
It's a thing
About two weeks ago
Drew was doing some cleaning
and he decided to go behind the hatch on the node 1 aft.
Which you're supposed to do every weekend in Theory.
No, no.
But it hasn’t been done for three years for some reason.
Yeah, no but not behind the hatch.
Behind the hatch on node 1 aft,
it is a separate activity.
It is a separate activity,
but he’s like oh I'm just going to go there
and he said that he was smelling food from 2012 or something like that.
There was stuff floating in.
There’re probably hundreds of calories up there.
So how’s the,
because now there is the fancy galley in node 1,
- Yes
which you guys probably saw but I didn’t.
Starboard.
It's really cool.
But also the galley’s port and the table is starboard.
- Yeah
- yes
- okay
- but the main difference is where the PWD…
the PWD is located in the galley?
Ok, and what else has changed?
Oh this is something that happened by the way.
I’ll sidtrack for just a second.
So the galley in node one,
the whole system being integrated with two fridges
mm-hmm
you have two Melfi.
The oven?
You have two ovens of which you only use one
but everybody has…
So there's no suitcase anymore?
No, no
the suitcase is in the Russians segment.
And the oven is always on which is nice.
It's always on, it works really well.
For us it wasn’t always on.
It's got slots that can be used for cans,
for the normal food you can even rehydrate…
We installed all this for you by the way.
You're welcome.
Thank you
Well, we broke it.
You’re welcome.
Yeah well, I figured you would but…
So this is the story,
one day we go and the PWD is off.
The food warmers are off.
Okay what happened, what happened?
So we called down and I call it
and they say let us look into it.
Basically
the electrical system
had shut down.
The whole rack.
Which meant that we didn't have any water
and
we were like okay this is kind of important to have,
to have water available
by the way
because otherwise we have to start going into Russian segment
collect water,
bring it back.
So they said ah
ok we’ll solve it.
So they didn't solve it right away
because they didn't quite know what it was.
They wanted us to do some troubleshooting.
In the meantime
we removed the PWD
the water distributor from the galley
back into the lab
And then they had me connect from the new
none of you guys probably say this.
There is a new water tank system in the in the deck
and Nick installed that
and basically they had me connect a specific tube
from that rack into the water distribution system
so that we could have access to potable water.
But it still took two or three days before we could do that
because there was no procedure for it.
So couple of things:
we have these new tanks that are really cool.
You have they come up
and they’re call WRS
WTS - water tank systems.
They're really, really big.
Soft or?
No, they’re not soft.
On the outside they look 3D-printed,
but they’re not.
Those grey big thigs?
The grey ones, yes.
The grey big tanks.
There're four that go into the deck in in the lab
and you constantly recycle them
and then we use those to fill them with brine
and then we burn them.
Okay.
And those were all done for the first time in our increment.
The filling with the brine and…
They fill up a rack?
So they fill...
The four tanks fill up half a rack
and then the lower part I think is filtering.
Which rack?
It's lab deck four.
And before you get sidetracked again,
where was the electrical failure on the galley in the end?
the distribution system.
The actual distribution system.
So they had ahhh…
because we installed that too.
Good job Thomas!
hehehe
They don’t know why…
It’s been working for years in my defence.
Until Luca showed up, right?
Until Luca showed up.
So, hmmm...
They couldn't tell what happened.
That’s why they were worried about replacing just right away with one
because they couldn't really track what happened
or how it, or why it failed.
But, so that was a big Impact.
and
But now they have procedures in case that happens again.
They have the procedure to do this transfer,
this swap.
And then after we did the swap
it was actually going back to the old habits.
You go to the lab to fill up the water and rehydrate.
Do the swing?
And do the swing.
The three-axis swing.
That you come to master after some training,
after a after a couple of times of smashing your face.
One push off from the table and then and then…
Zoop.