11. Astronauts took some time off Friday after Discovery undocked from the international space station. 12. Astronauts will take the craft up for a shortened scientific mission on Tuesday, weather permitting. 13. Each astronaut will take a turn playing a limp crewman while the other pulls him the length of the payload bay back into the shuttle. 14. Each astronaut will take a turn playing a limp crewman while the other pulls him back into the shuttle. 15. During a two-week shuttle flight next spring, astronauts will take the melatonin hormone to see if it helps them sleep. 16. The astronauts took time out from pointing the telescopes Monday to wish fellow astronaut Norman Thagard a good trip aboard the Russian space station Mir. 17. The last time shuttle astronauts took a spacewalk, in February, their fingers froze and they had to hurry back inside. 18. To celebrate their Baltimore roots, the astronauts are taking along freeze-dried Chesapeake Bay crab soup. 19. Two space station astronauts took a spacewalk Wednesday in a test of an American-made exit used only once before at the orbiting outpost. 20. Unity was dark inside and so the astronauts took along flashlights and lanterns. |