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Atlantis orbiter docks with international space station

Posted Jun 11, 2007 at 07:13PM by Ceasar S. Listed in: International Space Station, News, NASA, Spacecraft, Space Missions Tags: NASA, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, Atlantis
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Big news from the final frontier: NASA's space shuttle Atlantis has recently docked with the international space station orbiting some 200 miles away from Earth's surface. But their efforts to carry out their primary mission - to add a 35,000 pound segment to the ISS - were held back after the station's gyroscopes became overloaded.

The hour's delay had Atlantis aiding the station's orientation as the gyroscopes used to maintain the station's position had their problems resolved. But soon thereafter, James Reilly and Danny Olivas made their venture out into space to add the segment that will increase the station's power capabilities.

The six-and-a-half hour spacewalk ended in their removal of locks and restraints on the segment, giving way to attaching the segment to the station's backbone. On Wednesday, Reilly and Olivas will take another spacewalk to activate the solar arrays on the segment, providing the station with 14 kilowatts of power generation.

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