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Article: NASA extends Discovery's mission by a day.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2005
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Byline: Robyn Shelton
ORLANDO, Fla. _ The crew of the shuttle Discovery is getting an extra day in space.
With future shuttle flights grounded indefinitely, NASA decided Saturday to extend the mission so Discovery's astronauts can do more maintenance work on the international space station and transfer over surplus supplies such as paper, pens and laptop computers.
"We'll sure appreciate getting that extra day," said Bill Gerstenmeier, space station program manager.
Earlier, astronauts Stephen Robinson and Soichi Noguchi, armed with a high-tech caulking gun and putty knives, went for a space walk, spending nearly seven hours testing ...