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Astronaut helmet camera: wide of solar arrays2. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of array extending3. Astronaut helmet camera: various of solar arrayJohnson Space Centre - Houston, Texas 4. Wide of briefing5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eInternational Space Station\u003cbr/\u003e1. Astronaut helmet camera: wide of solar arrays\u003cbr/\u003e2. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of array extending\u003cbr/\u003e3. Astronaut helmet camera: various of solar array\u003cbr/\u003eJohnson Space Centre - Houston, Texas \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of briefing\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Derek Hassman, STS-120 Lead ISS Flight Director:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The spacewalk to repair the 4-B solar ray was a, just a complete success. We installed the cufflinks, we completed the deploy, the 4-B solar ray and we put it into what we call high tension mode which puts it in a completely nominal configuration.\"\u003cbr/\u003eInternational Space Station\u003cbr/\u003e6. Astronaut helmet camera: astronaut arriving at solar ray worksite\u003cbr/\u003e7. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of snag on solar panel\u003cbr/\u003e8. Astronaut helmet camera: installation of first cufflink\u003cbr/\u003e9. Astronaut helmet camera: wide of solar panel with cufflink in\u003cbr/\u003e10. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of astronaut cutting hinge wire holding up the blanket\u003cbr/\u003e11. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of astronaut crimping the end of hinge wire\u003cbr/\u003eJohnson Space Centre - Houston, Texas\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dina Contella, STS-120 Lead Spacewalk Officer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"When Scott approached, he described what he saw in terms of the damage, as a hairball, and so we knew that it couldn't be good so the guide wire had several frays as he described it, so we were already preparing, thinking that we were going to cut that long hide wire that runs from the top to the bottom of the array, but before we did that we installed that metal cufflink to give it some structural support.\"\u003cbr/\u003eInternational Space Station \u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of hairball snag being held by astronaut\u003cbr/\u003eJohnson Space Centre - Houston, Texas\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dina Contella, STS-120 Lead Spacewalk Officer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We released the hung up part of the panel by cutting the hinge wire, and this was, the blanket was held up by one of the hinge wires and had a very large piece protruding and Scott cut that, and released that part of the blanket and then he prepared himself and Wheels to cut the guard wire.\"\u003cbr/\u003eInternational Space Station \u003cbr/\u003e15. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of cufflink operations\u003cbr/\u003e16. Astronaut helmet camera: mid of astronaut pulling panel down to put cufflink in\u003cbr/\u003e17. Astronaut helmet camera: wide shot of all 5 cufflinks installed\u003cbr/\u003eAstronauts successfully unfurled a torn solar power wing at the international space station on Saturday after spacewalker Scott Parazynski cut loose a tangled clump of wires and patched everything up.\u003cbr/\u003eHis emergency surgery saved the solar energy panel, and the space station.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The spacewalk to repair the 4-B solar ray was a just a complete success,\" said Derek Hassman, the Lead ISS Flight Director for STS-120.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the tense build-up to the spacewalk, one of the most difficult and dangerous ever attempted, NASA repeatedly warned that station construction would have to be halted if the wing could not be fixed.\u003cbr/\u003eThe prospect was so grave that NASA felt it had no choice but to put Parazynski practically right up against the swaying power grid, which was coursing with more than 100 volts of electricity. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We released the hung up part of the panel by cutting the hinge wire, and this was, the blanket was held up by one of the hinge wires and had a very large piece protruding and Scott cut that, and release that part of the blanket and then he prepared himself and Wheels to cut the guard wire,\" said Dina Contella, STS-120 Lead Spacewalk Officer. \u003cbr/\u003eNo other astronaut had ever been so far away from the safe confines of the cabin.\u003cbr/\u003eEven before Parazynski made his way back inside, the radio traffic was full of cheers and congratulations.\u003cbr/\u003eShouts of \"Yay! All right! Beautiful! Great news!\" streamed from the linked shuttle-station complex once the wing was unfurled to its full 115-foot length. Mission Control promptly relayed thanks from NASA's top brass.\u003cbr/\u003eParazynski said it was an honour.\u003cbr/\u003eIt took almost an hour for Parazynski to be manoeuvred back from the wing, riding on the end of a nearly 90-foot robotic arm extension that just barely reached the damage. \u003cbr/\u003eThat's how long it took him to get out there, too. Parazynski worked on the damage for more than two hours, cutting hinge and guide wires that became snarled and snagged the wing when it was being extended until Tuesday. \u003cbr/\u003eThe astronauts had just relocated a massive beam at the space station, and finished extending its first solar power wing, when the second wing got hung up after extending only 90 feet.\u003cbr/\u003eParazynski, 46, an emergency medical doctor before becoming an astronaut, looped five makeshift braces into the wing to reinforce a partially ripped hinge. \u003cbr/\u003eThey resembled big white stitches. Throughout the repair, Parazynski used an L-shaped Teflon stick, wrapped with insulating tape, to keep the billowing solar wing away and to avoid being shocked. \u003cbr/\u003eTo everyone's relief, the 90-foot length of cut wire retracted smoothly into its reel at the base of the wing, where Wheelock slowed its speed with a gripping tool.\u003cbr/\u003eThe spacewalk, the fourth for Discovery's space station visit, lasted more than seven hours.\u003cbr/\u003eIt wrapped up station construction work for the seven shuttle astronauts. \u003cbr/\u003eThe hatches between the linked spacecraft will close on Sunday and the shuttle will pull away on Monday. 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