NASA will try again with Tethered Satellite next week
U.S. and European astronauts will try again next week to deploy a satellite from the Space Shuttle at the end of 12-and-a-half miles of electrically conductive tether, repeated an experiment foiled in 1992 when a bolt on the deployment system snagged the tether after only about 850 feet had spooled...
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