Astronauts to repair shuttle's thermal blanket
Jun. 12, 2007

A new set of solar panels gleamed in the sunlight Tuesday on the international space station as the freshly installed array started opening up. Two astronauts hooked up the new 300-foot panels during a spacewalk Monday, and during the night engineers at Mission Control began remotely unfolding the array from its storage box. The movement was to continue slowly throughout the day to let the panels warm gradually in the sunlight and prevent them from sticking together. "It's really good to look out there and see those solar array blankets extended" a distance of one segment, said shuttle commander Rick Sturckow. The shuttle astronauts arrived at the station on Sunday and have been granted an extra couple of days in orbit to allow time to fix a thermal blanket near the shuttle's tail that peeled back during its launch. Experts don''t believe the gap would pose any threat to the astronauts, though it could allow damage to the shuttle during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

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