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Illness Delays Spacewalk to Install Columbus Lab

Posted Feb 10, 08 8:10 AM CST in Science & Health 

(Newser) – Today's planned spacewalk to install the Columbus lab on the International Space Station was pushed back until tomorrow after Atlantis astronaut Hans Schlegel experienced an undisclosed medical problem. The shuttle crew will spend today instead examining a minor tear in their craft's heat shield, and performing such routine chores as transferring food, water, and other supplies to the Space Station, Reuters reports.

The space walk was one of three scheduled for the mission, which NASA has already lengthened by one day, to 12. The crew is trying to conserve enough electricity to make a 13th day possible so they will have more time to configure their main payload: the $1.9 billion laboratory, Europe's contribution to the space station.

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In this handout photo from NASA, European Space Agency astronaut Hans Schlegel of Germany is seen during suit-up at the Kennedy Space Station, Fla. Thursday Feb. 7, 2008. Atlantis is scheduled to launch...   (Associated Press)
The crew of space shuttle Atlantis, top row from left, commander Stephen Frick, pilot Alan Poindexter, mission specialist Leland Melvin, and mission specialist Rex Walheim. Bottom row from left, mission...   (Associated Press)
The space shuttle Atlantis crew from left, pilot Alan Poindexter, commander Stephen Frick, mission specialist Leland Melvin, European Space Agency astronaut Hans Schlegel of Germany, mission specialist...   (Associated Press)
This image provided by NASA, shows a slight protrusion of a thermal blanket on the starboard Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) pod of space shuttle Atlantis, was photographed during a standard arm checkout...   (Associated Press)
In this photo provided by NASA, backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the Columbus laboratory in space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay, vertical stabilizer and orbital maneuvering system...   (Associated Press)
In this image taken from video provided by NASA TV, international space station Astronaut Peggy Whitson, the station's first female commander, is seen speaking to ground controllers on her 48th birthday,...   (Associated Press)
In this photo provided by NASA, backdropped by a blue and white Earth, the docking mechanism, foreground, Columbus laboratory in space shuttle Atlantis' aft payload bay, vertical stabilizer, orbital maneuvering...   (Associated Press)
In this photo provided by NASA, backdropped by a blue and white Earth, the docking mechanism, foreground, Columbus laboratory in space shuttle Atlantis' aft payload bay, vertical stabilizer, orbital maneuvering...   (Associated Press)
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