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John Doe wrote:
I have taken a look at the image gallery on the spaceflight web site.

When they relocated the Cupola, is it correct to state that there was a
vacuum inside because there is [no] CBM hatch in the cupola itself ?

Yes. They had to go through a long procedure to depressurize it prior
to unberthing. I think PMA's are the same.

The original US segment holes had a very clean vestibule covered with
some plastic (or fabric) membrane to hide all the connectors below.

Right now, all of the systems in the cupola appear to be rather bare,
exposed, with cables and water tubes visible. Is this to be permanent,
or will all those eventually be covered up with some similar membrane ?

The ATU and the robotic workstation have been mentioned.

That Robotic Workstation hasn't actually been moved yet. There was
some problem with unexpected physical interference from other hardware
that had to be dealt with first. This is probably one reason why the
vestibules have been left open.

It will be interesting to see that RWS in its final location. The
whole setup, with its deep control panel and multiple monitors spread
out, seems kidn of big for the limited space in the Cupola.

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Jordan.