08 November 2007

Our Spaceship Returns to Earth

Space ship, or excuse me.. Space shuttle Discovery landed yesterday after accomplishing the most challenging and heroic mission in shuttle history. Setting out on a 'build and repair' mission, 7 astronauts and 3 residents teamed up to fix the broken solar wing of a space station.
Marcia Dunn, an aerospace writer for AP, put it best:
Parazynski floated outside with wire cutters, pliers and some homemade tools and fixed the torn wing. No one had ever ventured so far from the safe confines of the space station before or worked right up against a solar wing coursing with more than 100 volts of electricity and swaying back and forth. He was propped on the end of a 90-foot extension beam that just barely reached the wing's damaged section.
I can hear Hollywood calling from here. Source.

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