Posted
7/07/2006 05:31:00 PM
by Douglas
Yay! Another
day on-orbit is always a good thing.
Also Friday, NASA managers announced that Discovery has enough fuel to stay up for a 13th day to squeeze in a third spacewalk for Sellers and Fossum on July 12.
In that bonus spacewalk, Sellers and Fossum will practice shuttle thermal repairs and perhaps conduct a real fix by yanking out spare gap filler between heat-shield tiles just below the shuttle's nose.
Let's do this thing!