The shuttle Discovery’s astronauts are getting ready to leave the International Space Station after they completed that most complex task of their mission, which was folding up a jammed solar array on an impromptu spacewalk. On their mission, the astronauts have also rewired the space station and conducted three scheduled spacewalks.
Their latest and greatest success was a spacewalk completed with none of the ground training they had for previous ones and with only a few days of planning by engineers at Mission Control in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
U.S. astronaut Robert Curbeam and Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang of the European Space Agency worked for more than five hours during a 6½-hour spacewalk Monday to get the last section of a 35-metre-long solar array folded up into a box at the space station. “You guys are superheroes!” astronaut Megan McArthur in Mission Control told Discovery commander Mark Polansky and his crew.
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