NASA extends Discovery mission by a day
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports:
Two spacewalking astronauts armed with caulking guns, putty knives and foam brushes practiced fixing deliberately damaged shuttle heat shields Saturday, as NASA extended what could be its last trip to the space station for a long while.
With future shuttle flights grounded because of Discovery’s fuel-tank foam loss during liftoff, mission managers decided to keep the crew at the international space station an extra day to haul over surplus supplies and help with station maintenance.
It could well be next year before the foam problem is fixed and a shuttle returns to the space station.
posted by Fergie @ 7/30/2005 05:46:00 PM
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