Lubricant retrieval first task
By Xin Dingding and Hu Yinan | China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-25 08:03
JIUQUAN, Gansu: One of the first tasks of the spacewalker on Saturday will be to retrieve solid lubricants fixed on the surface of the orbital module.
They will be used for scientific studies when Shenzhou VII returns to Earth.
Among the 80 samples from four different kinds of lubricants the astronaut will retrieve will be molybdenum disulfide, the most widely used substance for space applications.
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