ISS EVA-23 Suit Water Intrusion Mishap Investigation Board Report

In case you missed this over in sci.space.news, this report is now
available from NASA here along with the affiliated news conference audio
and presentation:

http://www.nasa.gov/stationnews/#.Uw55zRCGfZw

There is a link from this site to the report which is a 222 page PDF
document which I've linked to he

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...n_Report.p df

I'll summarize with a quote from section 4.4 (pg 142) of the report
entitled Root Causes:

RC-1 Program emphasis was to maximize crew time on orbit for utilization.

RC-2. ISS Community perception was that drink bags leak.

RC-3. Flight Control Team's perception of the anomaly report process as
being resource intensive made them reluctant to invoke it.

RC-4. No one applied knowledge of the physics of water behavior in
zero-g to water coming from the PLSS vent loop.

RC-5. Minor amounts of water in the helmet was normalized.

Draw your own conclusions after reading. I have not yet read through all
of this report.

BTW, I want to commend NASA on the release of this. This report is
something to laud *not* beat NASA over the head with. This is what
having transparency in your space program is all about....

Dave