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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Shuttle Discovery’s astronauts performed a cursory wing inspection Sunday as they zoomed closer to the international space station.
Astronaut Karen Nyberg said it was “just a quick inspection, as much as we could with what we have.”
The astronauts’ laser-tipped inspection boom is at the space station, left there by the previous shuttle crew in March. They’ll retrieve it after they arrive at the orbiting outpost today and perform a full survey once they depart.
Discovery did not have enough room for the 50-foot boom because of the Japanese lab that fills its payload bay.
