Station program scrambles to fix array before shuttle leaves

HOUSTON - International Space Station (ISS) engineers are refining a hurry-up repair technique to fix the torn solar blanket on the outermost set of ISS arrays, but they may need to add yet another day to the STS-120/10A mission to pull it off. If the array can't be fixed, structural limitations...

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