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Time runs out for Discovery; crew abandons plans to release satellite
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The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After three frustrat
ing days. Discovery's crew gave up Monday on cast
ing a satellite into space, one of the main purposes of
the mission. And they couldn't get through to Mars.
Mars, Pa., that is.
Astronaut Ronald Sega, who's in charge of the
trouble-plagued satellite, had little to say when Mis
sion Control informed him flight directors were call
ing it quits and that the craft would remain aboard
Discovery. But the tone of his voice said it all.
"Yeah, we copy," Sega said quietly.
Sega and Discovery's five other crew members,
including Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, had
been trying since Saturday to deploy the Wake
Shield Facility, a $13.5 million steel disk on which
physicists hoped to grow pure semiconductor film.
Researchers said high-quality samples, if obtained,
could have led to more advanced electronics, includ
ing faster computers.
The crew encountered one problem after another:
glare from the sun, radio interference and, finally, a
failed guidance sensor. After hours of debate by
flight controllers over whether to release the Wake
Shield as is, time ran out. Monday afternoon was
NASA's last chance; the shuttle mission isschej;
to end Friday.
Controllers could not be certain the WakeSf;
would remain steady in flight, given thebadhor;
sensor.
An unstable satellite would jeopardize whale
film growth could be achieved at this point and;
sibly prevent the crew from retrieving the call
the trip home.
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