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Discovery: the first repair was successful
Washington, USA - But NASA's technician inform: "A second intervention could be necessary"
US astronaut Steve Robinson, performing the third spacewalk, succeed to carry out the repair on the shuttle’s underbelly: the American cosmonaut attached to a robotics arm manoeuvred by the Japanese Soichi Noiguchi, has removed two short strips of insulating material filling the cracks of the thermal shield’s tiles (made up of 24,300 tiles) that got detached (see for details AVIONEWS). So NASA had...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency