Abstract: On the early morning of September 15th, 2016, on the first floor of Building 31 at NASA-Johnson Space Center, the hose from a water chiller ruptured and began spraying water onto the floor. The water had been circulating though old metal pipes, and the leaked water contained rust-colored particulates. The water flooded much of the western wing of the building’s ground floor before the leak was stopped, and it left behind a residue of rust across the floor, most notably in the Apollo and Meteo…