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Spacewalk hit by brief power outage, no danger
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-05-18 11:27
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Shuttle Atlantis and its crew of six delivered the antenna and other spare parts to the space station Sunday. NASA wants to stockpile as much equipment at the orbiting complex as possible before the shuttle program ends.
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 The new Russian mini research module named Rassvet, a Russian word meaning "Dawn", is seen inside the Space Shuttle Atlantis' payload bay in this image from NASA TV May 15, 2010. [Agencies] |
Only two more shuttle missions remain. For Atlantis, though, this is it.
NASA may add an extra chore to the second or third spacewalk coming up this week. A cable is snagged at the end of the shuttle's inspection boom. Mission managers said it should be a quick and easy job to free it. The problem prevented the shuttle crew from properly checking Atlantis over the weekend for launch damage.
Mission Control will have the astronauts use the shuttle robot arm Tuesday to check the sections of the left wing and other areas that were missed in Saturday's survey. The crew also will take on another major objective Tuesday, attaching a new Russian-built compartment to the space station.
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 The Space Shuttle Atlantis is backdropped against the Earth prior to docking with the International Space Station in this handout photo provided by NASA and taken May 16, 2010. [Agencies] |
