The last spacewalk was dedicated to an urgent task, the pre-planned tasks will already be carried out during the spacewalk of the International Space Station crew members. Discovery will leave the space station on Monday and land on Tuesday
Astronauts Scott Przezinski and Doug Wilcock successfully repaired the malfunctioning solar array of the International Space Station during the fourth spacewalk of the STS-120 mission. The operation, which lasted seven hours and 19 minutes, ended at 13:22 EST (19:22 Israel time).
Immediately after the start of the spacewalk, Przezinski rode on the station's robotic arm to the solar collector that broke earlier this week while trying to deploy it after moving the component it was on, P6 from the attachments to P1 in the center of the station to P5 at the end of the station. He made sure it wouldn't move by resisting with his legs and, in addition, used the shuttle's robotic arm normally used to closely examine the Discovery's heat shield system to scan the broken receiver.
After arriving at the fault area, Przynski began the work of installing the cuffs prepared by the crew members. Once the five cuffs were in place, crew members inside the station could deploy the solar collector, half a rib at a time until it was fully deployed.
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli was the coordinator of this spacewalk.
The shuttle Discovery is scheduled to detach from the space station on Monday and land on Tuesday at noon Israel time at the Kennedy Space Center.
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Tomorrow (Monday) between 05:12 and 05:20 in the morning the ISS space station will pass exactly over Haifa at an altitude of 346 km. This is a rare opportunity that allows viewing the station also with field binoculars or any telescope with a small magnification (X15 to X30 is enough).
You can be updated and get the exact route on the website called havens above. First you have to enter the coordinates of the place in several options (I entered the exact coordinates according to google earth) and then select ISS.
Enjoyable viewing for those who want to get up...
I didn't just want you to tell me
Quite a snooze, you got confused on the website, there are traffic reports in Galgalatz. As soon as there is something significant I will report. What do you want, how will they disconnect without locking the hatches, what do you want the air to escape?
To my father, the editor of the website, the hatches between the two spaceships are supposed to be closed today