Nov 24 1997
From The Space Library
Two members of Columbia's crew, U.S. astronaut Winston E. Scott and Japanese astronaut Takao Doi, conducted a spacewalk, successfully recapturing the unresponsive Spartan satellite released on 21 November. After the 3,000-pound (1,400-kilogram) satellite had failed to turn toward the Sun, Columbia's robotic arm had bumped it away from the Shuttle. NASA officials had cancelled the mission's originally planned spacewalk to rescue the US$ 10 million spacecraft. Astronauts Scott and Doi later received a telephone call from President William J. Clinton congratulating them on grabbing the satellite.
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