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Instead, a ground-based NASA "ingenuity team" decided to use the Discovery's 50-ft. Canadian-built robot arm to flip the LEASAT's switch into position. The arm is not equipped for such a task, and NASA ground crews had to coach the Discovery astronauts through the fabrication of attachments resembling flyswatters for the arm. While a ground team experimented with a duplicate of the arm, Discovery's "swat" team employed such mundane equipment as Swiss Army knives and a roll of duct tape to turn some plastic tubing, wire, a metal sunshade frame and plastic notebook covers into...
...exercise required close coordination between earth and space. Astronauts Sally Ride and Mary Cleave, who are experienced with the robot arm, practiced flipping a replica of the switch at Mission Control. Other technicians tested duplicates of the manipulators in a special vacuum chamber to make sure they would withstand the airless chill of outer space...
...your battery is running low, go to Camera Settings, and then click on the Display menu to switch off or dim the backlights for your keypad and screen...
CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES, now H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL, finally married PRINCE CHARLES on a crisp Saturday in Windsor. The wedding had seemed positively jinxed. The royal chapel wasn't licensed for civil weddings, so they had to switch to a public hall; the Queen didn't attend the actual ceremony; the Pope's funeral postponed it all by a day. But in the end the crowd cheered warmly, and Camilla's dress got thumbs up. Did a coach and horses then whisk the couple away? No, a car did; their royal relatives actually clambered onto buses for the Queen...
...dissect, and the TF never manages to guide it back to the larger topic. Frustrated, you’ll roll your eyes or write snide notes to your section buddy. Soon you’ll start coming to section late, sitting in silence, wishing your TF would mysteriously switch section to another room and “forget” to tell the whole class...