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...THAT? You bet. It's something we try to deal with every night on Nightly News and every morning on the Today program. We can always improve. I'm very concerned about the lack of respect for the news media, collectively. I think we all have a responsibility to repair that...
...Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews." N. WAYNE HALE, deputy manager of nasa's space-shuttle program, on last week's never-before-attempted spacewalk to repair the shuttle Discovery's underside...
STEPHEN ROBINSON, astronaut who, in a stunningly simple spacewalk repair job, used his fingers to pluck two pieces of cloth filler dangling from the space shuttle; NASA feared the loose bits would compromise the shuttle's heat shields upon re-entry...
...ROBOTIC ARM Discovery is equipped with a new 50-ft. (15.2-m) robotic arm that will reach out from the cargo bay to take infrared pictures of the orbiter at very close range, looking for potential problem areas ?THE PATCH KIT Discovery's astronauts will test a tile-repair technique using a sort of paste--but not, unless absolutely necessary, on damaged tiles...
...trained for that kind of extensive space walk, and even if they were and they found some damage, they could have done nothing about it anyway. "We had no capability to go over the side or under the spacecraft and look for an area of distress and repair a tile," he says...