NASA preparing for possible on-orbit repair of Discovery

The STS-114 spacewalk team is planning ahead for the possibility that Discovery's crew will have to perform an unprecedented on-orbit repair of two protruding "gap-fillers" on the shuttle's underbelly before coming home. "We're getting everything staged and ready to go," STS-114 Lead Spacewalk...

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