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(3 Nov 2007) SHOTLIST
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International Space Station
1. Astronaut helmet camera: wide of solar arrays
2. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of array extending
3. Astronaut helmet camera: various of solar array
Johnson Space Centre - Houston, Texas
4. Wide of briefing
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Derek Hassman, STS-120 Lead ISS Flight Director:
"The spacewalk to repair the 4-B solar ray was a, just a complete success. We installed the cufflinks, we completed the deploy, the 4-B solar ray and we put it into what we call high tension mode which puts it in a completely nominal configuration."
International Space Station
6. Astronaut helmet camera: astronaut arriving at solar ray worksite
7. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of snag on solar panel
8. Astronaut helmet camera: installation of first cufflink
9. Astronaut helmet camera: wide of solar panel with cufflink in
10. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of astronaut cutting hinge wire holding up the blanket
11. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of astronaut crimping the end of hinge wire
Johnson Space Centre - Houston, Texas
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dina Contella, STS-120 Lead Spacewalk Officer:
"When Scott approached, he described what he saw in terms of the damage, as a hairball, and so we knew that it couldn't be good so the guide wire had several frays as he described it, so we were already preparing, thinking that we were going to cut that long hide wire that runs from the top to the bottom of the array, but before we did that we installed that metal cufflink to give it some structural support."
International Space Station
13. Mid of hairball snag being held by astronaut
Johnson Space Centre - Houston, Texas
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dina Contella, STS-120 Lead Spacewalk Officer:
"We released the hung up part of the panel by cutting the hinge wire, and this was, the blanket was held up by one of the hinge wires and had a very large piece protruding and Scott cut that, and released that part of the blanket and then he prepared himself and Wheels to cut the guard wire."
International Space Station
15. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of cufflink operations
16. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of astronaut pulling panel down to put cufflink in
17. Astronaut helmet camera: wide shot of all 5 cufflinks installed
STORYLINE:
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.
"The spacewalk to repair the 4-B solar ray was a just a complete success," said Derek Hassman, the Lead ISS Flight Director for STS-120.
In the tense build-up 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.
"We released the hung up part of the panel by cutting the hinge wire, and this was, the blanket was held up by one of the hinge wires and had a very large piece protruding and Scott cut that, and release that part of the blanket and then he prepared himself and Wheels to cut the guard wire," said Dina Contella, STS-120 Lead Spacewalk Officer.
No other astronaut had ever been so far away from the safe confines of the cabin.
Parazynski said it was an honour.
Lift off remains targeted for December 6.

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