If everything goes as programme and there are no further delays , Discovery will be in space for almost an intact year ! In fact , it will be only one twenty-four hour period off the 365 - day scrape .
If you put together all its mission , Discovery has been in orbit for an amazing total of 352 days so far . TheSTS-133 missionwill now be 12 days , after a one - day extension . This will take the complete numeration to 364 twenty-four hour period . Come on NASA , could we keep it up there for one more day ? The blank shuttles ’ returns have been delayed many time in the past — for mission cause or technological or weather problems — why not take the entire time to a full year just for kicks ?
If I were the Discovery ’s crew , I would pull an Ed White * up there , and disregard mission ascendancy for a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .
On June 3 , 1965 , during the Gemini 4 foreign mission , White was have so much fun during his first space walk — the first American space walking in account , in fact — that he just would n’t get back into the spacecraft . Since they were having problem with their novel communication arrangement — which would have simultaneously connected the two astronauts and military mission control — White could n’t have orders from flight control . The orders had to be relay through Gemini 4 ’s commander Jim McDivitt .
This is not Ed White , but Alvin Drew emerging from the Quest airlock on the International Space Station to begin his spacewalk . Drew is the 200th human being to do a spacewalk .
McDivitt to White : I ’m going out to PUSH - TO - TALK and see what the Flight Director has got to say .
Flight Director Chris Kraft , to Grissom : The Flight Director says , get back in ! ( Kraft was not on the air travel - to - ground loop with the astronaut . )
McDivitt : Gus , this is Jim . begin any subject matter for us ?
Grissom : Gemini 4 , get back in !
McDivitt to White : Okay … They require you to come up back in now .
Yes , they in spades have to make up some bollocks excuse , like the peeing machine has a grievous leak or there has been an explosion after trying to mix some dehydrated strawberries with Tang .
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