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Discovery's Dangling Gapfiller Removed by Hand

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here's-hoping-everything-goes-cool dept.

Cyclotron_Boy writes "According to the New Scientist and NASA TV, Discovery's gap-fillers were removed successfully by hand by astronaut Steve Robinson earlier today during the eva. They didn't even have to use the forceps or the makeshift hacksaw-blade tool."

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  1. Sick experiments with animals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If your read the article to the end, you'll notice the passage that they put some material samples in a bag to see how they fare in open space environment.
    Well, let this to be told: one of these samples was a LIVE MOUSE !

  2. Re:That's a relief by fucksl4shd0t · · Score: 0, Troll

    NO kidding. Formerly the American Space Pick-up Truck, the space shuttle is now the American Space Redneck Pick-up Truck. Now you drive it where you want to go, then you fix it and drive it back home.

    They should paint all the wings primer-colored so all the world can see what they're really flying...

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  4. does anyone see the politics? by torpor · · Score: 0, Troll

    i mean, yeah, congratulations on the fix, yo. but, like, its a bit hard to overlook the image of this going on up there, while http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/29/niger.a idgroups/index.html">this is going on down here ..

    yeah yeah, i know, space exploration is good for the whole race, not just a select, privileged few, we shouldn't stop doing it, i know ..

    its just, such a mundane action to have spent billions of dollars on, on the one hand, in light of the lightness of the other hand, is all i'm trying to say. i'm somehow saddened by the Discovery mission .. someone prove me wrong, or an idiot or something, and cheer me up again ..

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