Astronaut Robinson repairs gap-filler on Discovery's underside
STS-114 Mission Specialist Steve Robinson performed a first-of-its-kind repair of shuttle Discovery during a spacewalk the morning of Aug. 3, pulling out two protruding gap-fillers that might have caused the orbiter problems during re-entry. Robinson "gently tugged" on the protrusions until they...
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