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During the early morning there is a rare opportunity to see the Space Station flying in formation with Space Shuttle Discovery, homeward bound and due to land in Florida tomorrow evening.
 Between 06:30 and 06:37 CET the ISS, followed at a distance by Discovery, will fly along a line stretching from Cadiz (Spain), over Barcelona, Marseilles (France), Turin and Milan in northern Italy, toward Austria.
Residents of Paolo Nespoli's home town of Verano Brianza, near Milan, should have a clear view as they wake up. For early risers in Sicily, southern Italy, and Greece, the Station and Shuttle will be visible one orbit or 90 minutes earlier, between 04:59 and 05:03 CET (05:59 and 06:03 Eastern European Time for Greece).

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The European Columbus laboratory has taken an important step towards launch. Columbus was moved from its work stand at NASA's Space Station Processing Facility and placed inside the payload canister. The canister will transport the module to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its journey to the International Space Station.
 
"The empty stand symbolises one of the most visible milestones in the Columbus project.  The transfer to the canister is an essential step forward for the Columbus laboratory towards its launch and its final attachment to the ISS. It is indeed a symbolic moment for all those who have been contributing to the development of Columbus. Another step towards launch, a moment they will remember and of which they can be very proud" - Alan Thirkettle, ESA's International Space Station Programme Manager.
 
The 8-metre long Columbus laboratory has been prepared for flight at the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at NASAs Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), in Florida.

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Astronauts patched a damaged solar panel on the international space station yesterday during a tricky and dangerous seven-hour spacewalk.
Perched on the tip of an extension of the station's long robotic arm, astronaut Scott E. Parazynski snipped off tangles of broken and frayed wires that had ripped open two spots on the huge solar array, and installed five jury-rigged straps to reinforce the damaged area, allowing the panel to finally unfurl fully.

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A spacewalking astronaut-doctor fixed a ripped solar energy panel on the international space station Saturday in a difficult and dangerous emergency procedure that allowed the crew to extend the wing to its full length.
Spacewalker Scott Parazynski, who was trained as an emergency physician before joining NASA, installed homemade braces on the torn wing and clipped the snarled wires that had ripped it in two places as it was being unfurled Tuesday. He then watched as the crew deployed the wing to its full 35-metre  length.

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Astronaut Scott Parazynski has begun a dangerous spacewalk to try to fix a damaged solar panel on the International Space Station (ISS).
The energy-collecting wing developed a rip when it was being unfurled at the port end of the platform on Tuesday.
Mr Parazynski will ride the end of an extension boom installing home-made "cufflinks" to the broken section.
If the patch job is a success it will enable the wing to be fully deployed and properly locked in position.

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 NASA is in a round-the-clock scramble to finish planning risky spacewalking repairs to a high-
voltage solar wing damaged this week at the International Space Station.
Discovery astronaut Scott Parazynski will try to mend a torn wing blanket that generates 120 volts of electricity.

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Tear in space station's solar array might lead to next mission's delay
The next space-shuttle mission could be delayed by a new setback with the international space station's power supply.
Astronauts noticed a 21/2-foot-long tear in a panel Tuesday as they unfurled a giant solar wing.
It was the second time this week that NASA has been dealt a blow in its efforts to get the space station properly powered up so it can be expanded during future missions.

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Nasa is trying to assess the damage in a newly unfurled solar wing at the International Space Station (ISS).
The panel is part of an array held inside a girder that was moved on Tuesday from its temporary site on the platform to a new, permanent location.
Ground controllers and two spacewalking astronauts watched with concern as the second of two wings in the array opened to reveal a rip along its edge.

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Spacewalking astronauts bolted a solar power tower to the international space station on Tuesday, completing an ambitious three-day moving process that ended with elation when the beam's giant solar panels began to unfurl.
Their joy turned to concern, however, when a rip was spotted in the second solar panel.
NASA needs to get the tower up and running to prevent malfunctioning station equipment from delaying the addition of a much-anticipated European research lab.
A massive rotary joint is supposed to make sure the solar panel wings on the right side of the space station are facing the sun. But the gear, which was installed in June, has been experiencing electrical current spikes for nearly two months.
The solar panels on the 17 1/2-ton girder that was installed at its new location Tuesday were folded up like an accordion for the move, and the first one slowly was unfurled as the seven-hour spacewalk wrapped up, gleaming like gold in the sun.
The crew kept spacewalker Scott Parazynski and Douglas Wheelock apprised of the first solar wing's unfurling as they floated back inside.
The space agency added a day to Discovery's mission so spacewalking astronauts could conduct a detailed inspection of the troublesome joint. That work is scheduled for Thursday.
To make room for that inspection, managers cancelled a shuttle thermal tile repair demonstration that was scheduled for that spacewalk. The test was added to the mission after a piece of fuel-tank foam gouged Endeavour's belly on the last shuttle flight in August.
Any repairs to the malfunctioning gear would be put off until after Discovery departs.
Discovery is now scheduled to undock from the space station on Monday and return to Earth on Nov. 7.

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