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Journalism of Courage
Friday was moving day for the Discovery crew, which transferred thousands of pounds of supplies and cargo from the space shuttle to the International Space Station.
8216;8216;Have fun putting a new room on the station today8212;the float-in closet. Every home needs one,8217;8217; flight controllers in Houston wrote the shuttle crew in their daily morning electronic message.
The astronauts moved a huge cargo container, nicknamed Leonardo, onto the space station by robotic arm. Among the goodies awaiting the space station crew were a new stationary bicycle for exercise, an oxygen generator that will eventually allow the space station to support six inhabitants, a machine that cools the station8217;s cabin air and a lab freezer for scientific samples.
Discovery8217;s six remaining shuttle crew members awoke to a recording of The Beatles8217; Good Day Sunshine. The astronauts have to take close-up pictures of the orbiter8217;s underside and panel using the robotic arm and boom to reassure engineers that there8217;s no damage like the kind that doomed Columbia8217;s flight in 2003.
8211;MIKE SCHNEIDER
