Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery in seven crew members completed an inspection of the vehicle’s wings Sunday afternoon, looking for signs of damage caused by launching a day earlier.
Discovery World Tour, their way of the International Space Station ISS, is the implementation of the outpost is located in orbit the largest by far - Japan’s $ 1 billion laboratory. The Shuttle is also the guarantee of a spare pump for the space station for the disorder WC.
But inspection of the shuttle has not been as carefully as it is usually because the school bus-sized laboratory named Kibo - Japanese hope - took almost the entire payload bay.
He left no leeway for a 50-foot-Laser-Boom is overthrown by shuttle-50-foot arm.
Normally, on the second day of a space shuttle, astronauts Boom and the use of arms, a meticulous inspection slowed the spacecraft and the wings of the nose - Shuttle areas most vulnerable - for any signs of damage. It is a routine procedure security since the 2003 Columbia accident.