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THE BATTALION
NASA Space station equippc
with new solar panel ‘wing
Only one of two 115-foot blankets unfolded on first.
SPACE CENTER,
Houston (AP) — NASA
officials were assessing
their options early Mon
day about when to finish
unfurling the international
space station’s newly at
tached set of powerful so
lar panels.
The debut of the $600
million solar wings was
incomplete as only the
right panel was deployed
Sunday. Although the
right wing has started gen
erating electricity, some of
its tension cables appeared
to be slack.
Engineers are trying to
figure out if this will be a
problem in unfurling the
left wing and if that can be
done or should be delayed
until today, when astro
nauts on the space shuttle
Endeavour conduct their
second of three spacewalks
during this mission.
“Since we are in a good,
safe posture, there’s no rea
son to be in a big hurry and
deploy the other blanket
until we absolutely under
stand what we saw, or what
we’re looking at right
now,” said lead flight di
rector Bill Reeves.
The crew of Endeavour
was to have a light sched
ule of activities Monday
after a busy day of con
struction work.
During a 7 1/2-hour
spacewalk, astronauts Car
los Noriega and Joe Tanner
helped attach the truss con
taining the solar wings to
space station Alpha. It went
smoothly until the right
wing’s unfurling did not
proceed after commander
Brent Jett Jr. entered com
puter commands to do so.
A computer software
problem prevented the
latches and retention pins
on the wings from open
ing so the panels could be
deployed.
New software was sent
up, and Jett was able to
open all the latches and
pins, except one on the left
wing. He continued to send
commands and eventually
freed the stuck pin.
The right wing’s de
ployment delighted Norie
ga and Tanner.
"Ah, it looksbeil
Noriega exclaimed*
“More power i('i|r
tion,” Tanner said.
It took less than,
utes for the
wing to spread i
115 feet.
Noriega and 'ptried t<
were the first spae f a 56K
to have their bdem to
equipped with sc wnload
eras that provfeps w'lii
views of what the mi|iane<
they drove in boll surimg
leased latches \ 'ebknov
(aching the solar eeckan
"W pmmre Recent
all of our moveni udents h
and slow and steu ow eonr
iso
the pictures."Tai ; ^While
before the flight, orkisli
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First heart surgery planned for tige
leot trai
iteamoi
Titir
TYLER (AP) — Five-month-old
Karma is preparing to undergo
open-heart surgery on Saturday to
save his life.
No ordinary patient, the tiger cub
is thought to be the first of his species
to have surgery that corrects a con
genital heart defect. And the ground
breaking procedure will be done in a
human facility — Texas Children’s
Hospital in Houston.
“Heart bypass surgery to allow
surgeons to correct congenital heart
defects in children is routine,” said
Dr. Sonya Gordon of the Texas
A&M College of Veterinary Medi
cine. “However, the procedure on a
45-pound tiger may create some
unique challenges since it hasn’t
been done before.”
Karma’s surgery — a collabora
tive effort of Texas Children’s Hos
pital and the A&M veterinary school
— aims to correct a heart defect that
is common in humans, doctors said.
“He has a big hole inside the heart
and there is obstruction of a pathway
of blood to the lungs,” Dr. Charles
Fraser, chief of cardiac sur
iveu tim
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om on-c
wut slo'
The procedure
on a 45-pound
tiger may create
some unique chal
lenges since it
hasn't been done
before/'
Texas Children’s Hospital.^
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“We are going to closeik^;. t | ieil
and fix the pathway soblooda \\
lo the lungs more radii;
I he cat will stay atthc» on ,
overnight, then be transport;
Texas A&M College of \er7j^^
Medicine. Karma is expected to® | ^
three to five days there intheifJI | ^
care unit. Doctors expect him ^, ] ■ ,
I'ov^r c/v^n 'tftpr thp nnprqfinn iW ^
n-ca
— Dr. Sonya Gordon
Texas A&M University
College of Veterinary Medicine
c<rver s(xm after the operation.
Karma, who lives atligerOL
Wildlife Refuge north ofTvfcs . l | ltu
ly tires and becomes shortof ; F, '
Refuge officials said hewsMr so<
growing as qiuckls as hissisteaf 1 ! 11 ^
“His body is trying torf,
his heart is having a hard time® . 1
ing up,” said Tetri Block,refiid oa > s ^
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