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Out on a Limb

September/October 2005

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Out on a Limb

Photograph Courtesy NASA

Stephen Robinson, MS ’85, PhD ’91, became the first shuttle astronaut to perform an in-flight repair when he removed worrisome cloth swatches protruding from heat tiles on Discovery August 5.

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