ISS DIY: Home Improvement 220 Miles Above the Earth

What was going through my mind was, "Oh, you know, it's going to work, we'll figure it out." Something's not quite aligned, we just got to move it around a little bit, like when you're working on your car and you try to thread a bolt and it's not going in exactly?you just pull it out, put it back in, and try not to do it too hard and not cross thread. You don't want to break anything because one quarter of the power from the solar arrays going to the space station [comes through this MBSU], so it's a pretty huge amount of power.

I think when I saw the hurricane go below us and I realized we were still in the midst of trying to get the MBSU in position that this was going to be a long day. I had looked at the timeline beforehand?we weren't supposed to see that hurricane until we were coming in the door. That was probably about the six hour mark.

The other thought that crossed my mind, which was good, was there's a lot of really smart people on the ground. They have a mockup, they're going to be investigating it. Everyone took a breather, took a step back, and said maybe we don't have enough information at this point in time. Let's just strap [the MBSU] down, come back and think about it.

That's not our normal operating procedure. Usually on a space walk you really want to get stuff done. You want to get out there, get it done, get back inside. It's dangerous work. Nobody likes to put anybody outside just for the heck of it. So I think it was hard for people to give up at that moment in time and say we're not going to do this today.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/nasa/iss-diy-home-improvement-220-miles-above-the-earth-15269046?src=rss

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