HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Discovery crew on Tuesday worked out plans for an impromptu repair job that will send spacewalking astronaut Steve Robinson underneath the shuttle to work on its fragile belly for the first time in space history.
Working to ensure a safe return to Earth next week, the astronauts pored over instructions sent up from NASA engineers and began piecing together a makeshift hacksaw that Robinson may use in his task on Wednesday.
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