31.   NASA delayed spreading the wing after the first solar wing, extended Sunday night, appeared too slack.

32.   NASA has launched space shuttles to the space station seven times in the past year, adding framework, solar wings, a laboratory and the robot arm.

33.   NASA began the countdown Tuesday for a space shuttle mission that will provide powerful, new solar wings for the international space station.

34.   Once they discovered they were in an uncontrolled orbit, the crewmen used the attached Soyuz escape capsule to turn the solar wings toward the sun.

35.   Now, less than three years later, the space station is made up of five cylindrical modules, giant solar wings, a truss and a robot arm.

36.   Once the solar wings are installed, Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev will have full run of the space station.

37.   Solar wings and radiators will be bolted to it.

38.   Shepherd commended the Endeavour crew for installing and then fixing a giant set of electricity-generating solar wings on the space station.

39.   Space shuttle Endeavour thundered into the night with massive solar wings needed to energize the international space station.

40.   Solar wings and radiators will be bolted to it, giving the orbiting outpost more power for laboratories to be added in the future.