1.   All the partners responsible for building station modules have had technical and funding problems, especially the Russians.

2.   Goodman says that NASA is now paying additional attention to the acoustics within its station modules, to provide astronauts with quiet havens.

3.   One of the astronauts will work from the tip of the robot arm, the other from a portable foot restraint secured to the station modules.

4.   Russian guidance and propulsion systems will steer the two previously joined station modules toward the mating with Zvezda.

5.   The reattached cables carry power from the solar arrays on the Spektr, the station module that was punctured during the collision.

6.   The station modules contain miles of these wire bundles, all of which must be computer tested before installation.

7.   Today, the astronauts plan to install the second of the new station modules delivered by Discovery.

8.   A Russian cosmonaut and his German counterpart went outside the Mir space station Friday for a five-hour spacewalk to mount scientific equipment on a station module.