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  • Solar array redeployed after successful repair (Astronauts improvised mission succeeds!)

    11/03/2007 11:57:30 AM PDT · by Names Ash Housewares · 33 replies · 15+ views
    Spaceflightnow.com ^ | November 3, 2007 | WILLIAM HARWOOD
    Physician-astronaut Scott Parazynski, working on the end of a boom carried by the space station's robot arm, successfully repaired a mangled solar array today, cutting away a snarled guidewire, installing five suture-like braces and then standing by while his crewmates extended the array its full 110-foot length. Working with deliberate care, astronaut Dan Tani, sending commands from a computer inside the shuttle-station complex, extended the array's central mast a half bay at a time, stopping and letting Parazynski assess the health of the repairs as tension slowly built up on the just-installed braces. There were no problems and as the...