> gg wrote: > I heard the dude used an actual hockey stick with space-type duct
I guess it wasn't an actual hockey stick, just looked like one: During the 45-minute ride from the air lock to the array, Parazynski's in-station handler, Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, read to the dangling spacewalker from NASA's mission instructions: "We have a bunch of warnings related to shock hazard." NASA counted on the boom and Parazynski's long reach to untangle the snag. But Parazynski, who is 6 foot 2, had to improvise. Using the hockey stick, an L-shaped piece of Teflon covered in tape, he pulled the blanket-like array toward him to darn the tear together with wire harnesses. At times, the harness ends wouldn't fit into the holes. Parazynski tried to force the ends through, pushing them within inches of the bright orange panels that he could not touch without risking a shock. It was all just a slip away from disaster. The snag was worse than expected. If the wire recoiled too fast the array could fall on Parazynski. Or the wire could slice open his spacesuit or Wheelock's glove. Parazynski tried to work a break down below the array to control the retracting wire. On a count of "one, two, three," Parazynski snipped the wire. It retracted slowly, back into its box near Wheelock. Mission control erupted into cheers, and the array unfurled to its full 110-foot glory. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246015 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
