Tonight's Google Headline: Astronaut fixes torn solar panel
Earlier this week, the energy collecting wing on the ISS developed a tear as it extended outward from its housing unit. Lucky for us, astronaut Scott Parazynski hopped on an expandable boom like some sort of space cowboy, armed with a needle and thread and sewed the wing right up.
"It was easy as pie. I was a little bit nervous 'bout riding the boom out to the wing, 'cause you're pretty high up and I was afraid I might fall." Parazynski said.
But Parazynski did not fall. He intricately wove two-hundred and thirty three ion stitches into the broken wing, repairing it to full capacity.
NASA's chief operations engineer, Mike Chummel, speaking from Goddard Space Center told reporters,
"Many of the operations performed on the ISS are done using our robotic repair slaves--er...instruments, but there are times, such as these, where the only method of repair is good old-fashioned hands-on dirty naked work."
After the repair job was completed, Parazynski and the crew relaxed with space ice cream (Spumoni flavored) as well as a few powdered margaritas.
To read more on the story: BBC NEWS
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