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The Day Endeavour Cut Away Two Solar Wings Over Africa
A drifting Japanese satellite looms over Africa; Endeavour’s crew must cut its solar wings to bring it home. Did they make it in time?
The Day Endeavour Cut Away Two Solar Wings Over Africa
In this episode, we follow the STS-72 crew as they rendezvous with Japan’s unattended Space Flyer Unit and confront a failing latching sequence that risks the retrieval. What choices did the team make under a shrinking timeline, and how did training meet the unexpected?
Person: Brent Jett; Koichi Wakata; Leroy Chiao; Daniel Barry; Winston Scott
Event: STS-72 retrieval of the Space Flyer Unit (SFU)
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