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The Hab was designed to be on Mars, unlike the laptops, which are implied to be off the shelf (or close to it). As the book mentions, the Hab was constructed on Mars. So it's safe to assume that the computers that are built into the Hab were components of the Hab that the Ares 3 team installed into the Hab's structure. The computers would then not be off the shelf, they'd be designed to work on Mars, especially under crisis situations like being exposed to the Martian atmosphere.

Also, as part of the Hab, we know from their construction methodology that the Hab computer would have been just sitting there on the Martian surface for an extended period of time prior to being installed in the Hab. Ergo, it is resilient enough for the Martian atmosphere. From Chapter 20 of the book: (thanks to hobbs for pointing this out)

Then I did a controlled shutdown of the Hab. The critical components are designed to survive a vacuum. Hab depress is one of the many scenarios NASA accounted for. One system at a time, I cleanly shut them all down, ending with the main computer itself.

The Hab was designed to be on Mars, unlike the laptops, which are implied to be off the shelf (or close to it). As the book mentions, the Hab was constructed on Mars. So it's safe to assume that the computers that are built into the Hab were components of the Hab that the Ares 3 team installed into the Hab's structure. The computers would then not be off the shelf, they'd be designed to work on Mars, especially under crisis situations like being exposed to the Martian atmosphere.

Also, as part of the Hab, we know from their construction methodology that the Hab computer would have been just sitting there on the Martian surface for an extended period of time prior to being installed in the Hab. Ergo, it is resilient enough for the Martian atmosphere.

The Hab was designed to be on Mars, unlike the laptops, which are implied to be off the shelf (or close to it). As the book mentions, the Hab was constructed on Mars. So it's safe to assume that the computers that are built into the Hab were components of the Hab that the Ares 3 team installed into the Hab's structure. The computers would then not be off the shelf, they'd be designed to work on Mars, especially under crisis situations like being exposed to the Martian atmosphere.

Also, as part of the Hab, we know from their construction methodology that the Hab computer would have been just sitting there on the Martian surface for an extended period of time prior to being installed in the Hab. Ergo, it is resilient enough for the Martian atmosphere. From Chapter 20 of the book: (thanks to hobbs for pointing this out)

Then I did a controlled shutdown of the Hab. The critical components are designed to survive a vacuum. Hab depress is one of the many scenarios NASA accounted for. One system at a time, I cleanly shut them all down, ending with the main computer itself.

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The Hab was designed to be on Mars, unlike the laptops, which are implied to be off the shelf (or close to it). As the book mentions, the Hab was constructed on Mars. So it's safe to assume that the computers that are built into the Hab were components of the Hab that the Ares 3 team installed into the Hab's structure. The computers would then not be off the shelf, they'd be designed to work on Mars, especially under crisis situations like being exposed to the Martian atmosphere.

Also, as part of the Hab, we know from their construction methodology that the Hab computer would have been just sitting there on the Martian surface for an extended period of time prior to being installed in the Hab. Ergo, it is resilient enough for the Martian atmosphere.

The Hab was designed to be on Mars, unlike the laptops, which are implied to be off the shelf (or close to it). As the book mentions, the Hab was constructed on Mars. So it's safe to assume that the computers that are built into the Hab were components of the Hab that the Ares 3 team installed into the Hab's structure. The computers would then not be off the shelf, they'd be designed to work on Mars, especially under crisis situations like being exposed to the Martian atmosphere.

The Hab was designed to be on Mars, unlike the laptops, which are implied to be off the shelf (or close to it). As the book mentions, the Hab was constructed on Mars. So it's safe to assume that the computers that are built into the Hab were components of the Hab that the Ares 3 team installed into the Hab's structure. The computers would then not be off the shelf, they'd be designed to work on Mars, especially under crisis situations like being exposed to the Martian atmosphere.

Also, as part of the Hab, we know from their construction methodology that the Hab computer would have been just sitting there on the Martian surface for an extended period of time prior to being installed in the Hab. Ergo, it is resilient enough for the Martian atmosphere.

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The Hab was designed to be on Mars, unlike the laptops, which are implied to be off the shelf (or close to it). As the book mentions, the Hab was constructed on Mars. So it's safe to assume that the computers that are built into the Hab were components of the Hab that the Ares 3 team installed into the Hab's structure. The computers would then not be off the shelf, they'd be designed to work on Mars, especially under crisis situations like being exposed to the Martian atmosphere.