Posted by Davin Flateau on 3 Aug 2005 at 3:03 pm.
Filed under Astronomy.
With no service station in sight, the Shuttle astronauts had to improvise a repair on the spacecraft’s underbelly armed with a Canadian robotic arm, a hacksaw and of course, duct tape. As it turned out, astronaut Steve Robinson only needed his hands, as he plucked the offending tile “filler” from its protruding position.
Click on the image above for a larger version. Image courtesy of Jack Dunn at the Muller Planetarium at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and NASA.
Jim on 3 Aug 2005 at 6:04 pm: 1
Did they forget the bailing wire?