A lot of things are happening in the International Space Station over the past couple of months. Recently, the astronauts are trying to install a solar powered tower in the international space station. This involves a space walk which has high stakes.
Apparently, the solar wings of the space station seem to be malfunctioning. So Scott Parazynski will be attempting what we call an exploratory solar wing ’surgery’. He will be going around looking for problems with the solar wings.
Due to this work, the shuttle Discovery will be in the orbit for an extra day. This day was allotted for the detailed inspection of the International space station. A robotic arm will also help the space walkers as well. This is because, the panels are huge, roughly about 240 feet in size. I am positive that it would be a huge problem to manually lift or move the awkward solar panels around, specially in space.
This is sort of an international mission for the international space station. It is going to be a joint venture of European space labs and Japanese space labs. The best part is: the shuttle crew was awakened on Tuesday by an early morning song “Malaguena Salerosa” by Chignon.
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