Well now I'm just getting sick of this story. Some may call it a lemon.. or perhaps the Shuttle is just old.. but when I say clusterfuck, I mean
clusterfuck. Just as the get the last problem fixed (they forewent the makeshift hacksaw - w00t? a hacksaw isn't standard equipment on the space shuttle?)
another one crops up:
With a gentle tug of his gloved right hand, Discovery astronaut Stephen Robinson removed two worrisome pieces of filler material from the shuttle's belly Wednesday in an unprecedented space repair job that drew a big sigh of relief from NASA. But he may have to go out again to fix yet another trouble spot.
Robinson was barely back inside the shuttle and out of his spacesuit when Mission Control informed the crew there was a chance that a fourth spacewalk might be needed Friday to deal with a torn thermal blanket below a cockpit window.
The concern is that a 20-inch section of the blanket could rip away during re-entry, whip backward and slam into the shuttle, perhaps causing grave damage.
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