Astronaut to Attempt Spacewalk Record 116
MattSparkes writes "Two residents of the International Space Station will take a spacewalk tomorrow to try to jam a stuck antenna on a docked cargo ship back into place. The spacewalk will set a US record of over 65 hours spacewalk experience. During the spacewalk, the astronauts will "use a hammer and a chisel to try to pound the antenna into place". Precision engineering at its very best I'm sure you'll agree."
A US record? Yawn (Score:5, Insightful)
Hammer Time (Score:3, Insightful)
If you break it, it didn't work anyway.
(usually as applied to delicate electronic equipment)
Re:A US record? Yawn (Score:4, Insightful)
You're right, the mind-set isn't new, sports records are also kept by country. In my high school, we even had state and local records! But God forbid that anyone else than America be chastised for it. I'm sure that my principal should have looked up the times of that Kenyan fellow who was faster than any of our track team.
Re:Related metalworking question- (Score:3, Insightful)
If you use it to flake bits of metal off, then yes, there will be flakes. But chances are, they're just going to use the chisel as an impromtu guillotine to cut through the antenna legs. Chiselling away at them would serve no purpose.
It better have cost more! (Score:3, Insightful)