61. The telescope departed with more powerful solar wings, a better central power controller and the most advanced optical camera ever launched to study the universe. 62. The telescope received a pair of stronger solar wings and a more robust power-control unit earlier this week. 63. The three men continued to work in the darkness to recharge solar batteries by pointing the remaining solar wings toward the sun. 64. The visit came one day after shuttle astronauts Joe Tanner and Carlos Noriega tightened a new solar wing on the space station. 65. The visit, from the crew of space shuttle Endeavour, comes after astronauts Joe Tanner and Carlos Noriega tightened a new solar wing on space station Alpha Thursday. 66. They also will be the most powerful solar wings ever flown. 67. They fired thrusters to turn the still-functioning solar wings toward the sun, using up precious fuel. 68. They will be the most powerful solar wings ever flown. 69. Until the new solar wings were installed one month into their four-month mission, Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev had to skimp on electricity. 70. Two shuttle astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk Monday and installed the first of two new, powerful solar wings on the Hubble Space Telescope. |