Man.......where's Ron Howard, this sounds like a movie! On Nov 7, 2007 4:11 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246045 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
