Astronauts to Work on Jammed Solar Wing
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By RASHA MADKOUR HOUSTON - The space shuttle Discovery crew scored another day floating in the cosmos - precious time for the majority-rookie flight - but it'll hardly be a walk in the orbital park.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station abandoned troubleshooting efforts on a jammed solar panel on Wednesday, leaving it half extended, and went forward with the next steps in their mission to rewire the outpost's electrical system.
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Astronauts made a tricky job look easy  on Tuesday when they used a robot arm to latch a 17.5 tonne  solar power girder to its new home at the end of the  International Space Station.
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Astronauts working on the International   Space Station had troubles on Wednesday familiar to any   backyard mechanic on Earth -- a lost bolt and a broken tool.
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Spacewalkers aboard the  International Space Station prepared on Sunday for an  unplanned, fourth outing to fix a stuck solar array, while  other crew members finish transferring cargo brought up by the  shuttle Discovery.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station began the delicate task of folding up one of the station's solar power wing panels on Wednesday to make way for a new set to track the sun for power.
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Astronauts plowed ahead Monday with the mammoth job of moving a 17 1/2-ton solar array truss on the international space station, a task made even more crucial following the discovery of contamination in an important part of the orbiting lab's power system.
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NASA asked its orbiting astronauts Monday to take a closer look at the gears that control the international space station's solar wings to try to find out what's grinding inside and causing steel chips to clog the system.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Dec. 16 -- Two astronauts floated outside the international space station Saturday aiming to finish rewiring the orbiting outpost and folding a stubborn solar array so that a fourth, unplanned spacewalk would not be needed.
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Astronauts made a tricky job look easy on Tuesday when they used a robot arm to latch a 17.5 tonne solar power girder to its new home at the end of the International Space Station.
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By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press writer  HOUSTON  NASA unfurled the international space station's new solar wings for the first time Thursday in what looked like the stretching of a giant accordion in orbit.  "Big day for space station.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - NASA unfurled the international space station's new solar wings for the first time Thursday in what looked like a giant accordion being stretched out in orbit. "Big day for space station.
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By Mike Schneider  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A pair of spacewalkers manually shaking a stubborn solar array managed to free some stuck grommets Saturday, but not enough to fold the array up into a box properly.
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HOUSTON, June 12 -- The international space station deployed  a new power source Tuesday, unfolding a pair of 115-foot-long solar wings like an accordion window blind.
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The Discovery crew may have to perform an unscheduled spacewalk to fix a stuck solar panel on the space station.
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Two astronauts aboard the orbiting International Space Station on Wednesday replaced an electric motor on one of three solar wings that provide power to the station during a seven-hour-long spacewalk, NASA said.
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Astronauts on Saturday prepared for a spacewalk to finish rewiring the International Space Station's power grid, while NASA, stymied in its efforts to free a jammed solar panel, considered turning to the spacewalkers for help.