[AMC-list] Fwd: [xjlist] OT - Wrenching in space!

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is indeed some cool shit!
See link below.

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

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From: "John Jackson" 
To: "Jeep" <jeep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jeepcherokeexjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, madxj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xjlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:00:29 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [xjlist] OT - Wrenching in space!








I don't know how many of you will have the opportunity to watch but if you 
get on the Internet and go to www.nasa.gov, you can watch live video of 
the space shuttle Atlantis astronauts retrofitting the Hubble space 
telescope with new science instruments. They just overcame a problem with 
a stuck bolt!! They've got a torque limiter on their wratchet and the 
maximum setting they were using was not enough to get the main bolt loose 
that holds in one of the telescope's main cameras. They were almost ready 
to give up and leave the old camera in. Then, they had the idea to remove 
the torque limiter and try just good old elbow grease, knowing that if the 
bold broke the camera was staying in for good. What was most harrowing 
was listening to/watching the dialogue about how to deal with it. What 
would have taken you or me about 1 second to make a decision about took 
them a couple of minutes. Obviously they are trying to be careful because 
they're ability and time to come up with new approaches and contingencies 
is extremely limited. Still though, I was sitting there wishing I could 
swap places with them and just get the job done! :)) They are doing 
fantastic though. Given what they are working on, this is some really, 
really, REALLY cool shit! :) 

-John Jackson 
Amherst, MA 
'96 XJ 

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