I hope we never get too old to think that this is commonplace.
Look, an astronaut shooting into space is cool all by itself, right? What about a space walk? Cool. What about an outside-the-spacestation repair? COOL.
Astronauts successfully unfurled a torn solar power wing at the international space station on Saturday after spacewalker Scott Parazynski cut loose a tangled clump of wires and patched everything up.
His emergency surgery saved the solar energy panel - and the space station.
I’m running out of “cool” - what’s better than that?
In the tense buildup to the spacewalk - one of the most difficult and dangerous ever attempted - NASA repeatedly warned that station construction would have to be halted if the wing could not be fixed.
The prospect was so grave that NASA felt it had no choice but to put Parazynski practically right up against the swaying power grid, which was coursing with more than 100 volts of electricity. No other astronaut had ever been so far away from the safe confines of the cabin.
How does a guy walk with cahones that big? Read it all - it’s got hockey, tool-catching in space, surgery - emergency medic style. Wow. Just, wow.
