Orbiting crane crew installs ISS segment after wing check

The combined crews of the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station were bolting a new section of truss into the ISS backbone late Dec. 12, after using a camera in the station's robotic construction crane to check out a possible orbital debris impact on the shuttle's left wing. A...

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