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HOUSTON - A key test of a daring yet wobbly spacewalking technique that could be used to repair space shuttle heat shields worked well Saturday and got good reviews from two Discovery astronauts who might have to put it to work for real Wednesday.
The repair simulation put them at the end of an oscillating, 100- foot combination of a robotic arm and an extension pole that astronaut Piers Sellers said made him feel "like a bug on the end of a fishing rod here." In a 7 1/2-hour spacewalk, the first of three orbital excursions planned for this mission, Mr. Sellers and Michael Fossum said they could do most of the mock tasks with only moderate difficulty.See the full content of this document
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