First Station hatch will have a temporary duct like Mir

TEMPORARY DUCTS: Although ventilation aboard the International Station is designed to avoid use of the flexible ducts that snaked through open hatches all over the Mir orbital station, the first Station assembly crew will have to install just such a duct through the only hatch on the nascent Station...

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