Space shuttle 'damaged' : "US astronaut Daniel Tani noticed metal shavings and unusual wear on a race ring of a rotary joint used to rotate the arrays, NASA officials said."
Doesn't sound good because there is obviously the real wear and tear on the race ring...and it has to be managed 390 Km above the earth out there in space. Shifting solar panels, preparing for new labs, fixing race rings..they are incredibly game and busy. The ISS is the same distance as from here to Millicent, so it's quite a hike up there...and the astronauts seem to be extraordinarily game people. It's fantastic this is turning into a big international operation. It's true there are things on earth which need repairing and fixing but somehow people have always had to follow things which are bigger and more fantastic than ordinary life. It is what inspires them to great heights, quite literally. From the ISS will eventually come further space exploration...and that is amazing to be living in a time when we are starting to brave those frontiers. It is a pity we cannot use this same brilliant thinking and behaviour to correct our failings on earth. I wish we could, but we don't seem to be able to apply that kind of high end problem solving capacity to real life problems. Odd really.
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