Comments on: Fourth spacewalk ends after 8 hours, 2 minutes. http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/sm4blog/?p=247 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:25:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Frank Elliott http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/sm4blog/?p=247&cpage=1#comment-31 Frank Elliott Mon, 18 May 2009 02:14:14 +0000 http://www.spacetelescope.org/about/history/sm4blog/?p=247#comment-31 Hi Colleen, I enjoyed watching some of the repairs yesterday on spacewalk three when they were taking out the circuit boards and stowing them away. They used that special tool to pull them I think. They were turning a swivel type of joint rapidly at times. Was that designed to inch the boards out very slowly until they could pull them out safely by hand? Secondly I was wondering what they do with a stripped head. I use a screw or head extractor. That's a pretty delicate thing to do. Did they use an extractor tool for that? I sure hope they had some of them. stripped heads is a regular headache with home repairs. I loved the last quote too from Mike Massimino. What scenery right? A view from the top of the world - WOW! It was very uplifting for me to read that the astronauts feel it is a privilege to work up there. It's how I felt as an engineering librarian as I spoke to students and faculty members to open gateways to the world of information for them. Please keep up your great work and I hope you give us some more human interest blogging about the astronauts. Hi Colleen, I enjoyed watching some of the repairs yesterday on spacewalk three when they were taking out the circuit boards and stowing them away. They used that special tool to pull them I think. They were turning a swivel type of joint rapidly at times. Was that designed to inch the boards out very slowly until they could pull them out safely by hand?

Secondly I was wondering what they do with a stripped head. I use a screw or head extractor. That’s a pretty delicate thing to do. Did they use an extractor tool for that? I sure hope they had some of them. stripped heads is a regular headache with home repairs.

I loved the last quote too from Mike Massimino. What scenery right? A view from the top of the world - WOW! It was very uplifting for me to read that the astronauts feel it is a privilege to work up there. It’s how I felt as an engineering librarian as I spoke to students and faculty members to open gateways to the world of information for them. Please keep up your great work and I hope you give us some more human interest blogging about the astronauts.

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