Astronauts May Free Captured Satellite
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Space shuttle Columbia’s astronauts may free the satellite they captured in a dramatic spacewalk rescue. That would be scientists’ only hope of salvaging the satellite’s botched mission to observe the sun’s charged outer atmosphere. The $10-million Spartan satellite malfunctioned moments after its release from Columbia last week and had to be brought back aboard by two astronauts in a spacewalk.
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