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Jan 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002iaf..confe.876e&link_type=abstract
IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,
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Currently, engineers at NASA Johnson Space Center, Boeing, and ESA/Alenia Turin, Italy, are busily working to ensure the reliability, safety and structural integrity of some of the largest glass windows in the entire history of space travel, US or foreign. These windows will be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) Cupola. The Cupola is a dome consisting of six trapezoidal windows and one large, overhead circular window. It will be exposed to the low earth orbital environment for up to 15 years. Each Cupola window assembly will be expected to perform the part of maintaining the ISS atmosphere for the entire duration, regardless of the hazards of establishing residency in this hostile environment. How will NASA ensure these windows will not spectacularly fail, resulting in another national and worldwide tragedy? This paper will explain some of the techniques that NASA uses to verify structural glass hardware and ensure its safety and reliability. It will explain the various technical challenges that must be considered with structural glass such as static fatigue, low tolerance to damage, and special design and processing techniques intended to ensure the structural integrity. This paper will use various problems and examples that have manifested themselves during the design and development of the ISS cupola as illustrative examples.
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