1. Astronauts plan to retrieve the satellite before returning to Earth. 2. Chretien and Clinton announced that they would cooperate on a robot-like device used by the NASA space shuttle to retrieve crippled satellites, known as the Canadarm. 3. During the nine-day Endeavour mission, the crew will retrieve a satellite that has been collecting experiments, deploy another satellite and then retrieve it. 4. The satellite cannot be retrieved unless there is adequate fuel for a rendezvous with the satellite. 5. Three years later, he was back in space, deploying and retrieving satellites for the study of the origin and composition of stars. 6. While aloft, the Endeavour astronauts became the first to deploy and retrieve two satellites during a single space flight. 7. With the capture, Endeavour commander Dave Walker and his crew became the first to deploy and retrieve two satellites during a single spaceflight. 8. Appropriately, the satellite was retrieved just north of Antarctica and its infamous ozone hole, south of New Zealand. 9. Four more wafers will be grown before the experiment is over and the satellite is retrieved. 10. At the end of October, the Atlantis space shuttle will join up with the Mir and then retrieve a satellite launched by a Japanese missile. |