What happens in the unlikely event that the solar array blanket boxes don’t quite unfold?
A lot depends on where we are time-wise. We think that if things are going as planned, we have contingency procedures that we’ve trained for releasing the blanket boxes manually. If there were some other reason we were slowed down and we couldn’t get to it during EVA 1, then we’ll come back out for EVA 2 and manually deploy the blanket boxes. If mission managers decide they want to take a closer look at Discovery’s exterior once you’re docked, you’ll do what’s called a focused inspection. That may or may not happen. You guys won’t know that until you get there. If it doesn’t happen, if they decide everything looks good with the shuttle, what is planned for that particular day? What we’re hoping will happen is that we will have gotten everything done on EVA 1 and the blanket boxes are deployed and everything’s ready to go to deploy the solar array and we’ll actually be able to deploy the solar arrays a couple days early. And, that will be really exciting. If that early in the mission we
