Dec 7 2000
From The Space Library
NASA and the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to form a partnership to use science and space technology to prevent natural disasters. The agreement called upon NASA and FEMA to apply remote-sensing research images to emergency-management issues, creating accurate and informative maps of flood plains and wildfires, as well as other types of maps, intended to help state and local communities respond to and mitigate natural disasters. The partnership, affiliated with Project Impact: Building Disaster Resistant Communities, would use NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, as "part of an aggressive new strategy devoted to significantly increasing the application of NASA remote sensing data, information, science and technologies to societal needs."
Astronauts Joseph R. Tanner and Carlos I. Noriega were able to tighten the slack solar panel on the ISS within minutes, using only a hook to place two tension cables back on their pulleys. Although the wing functioned well even though it was slack, if the astronauts had not adjusted its tension, the solar cells might have torn or the support rods might have bent or broken. After repairing the wing, the two astronauts installed a camera cable and a static-electricity monitor on the outside of the ISS. The monitor would help NASA learn how to protect spacewalking astronauts from electrical shocks.
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