Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba A18 world Winnipeg free press Friday August 25, 2006 space station repairs Canadian astronaut awaits sunday launch return to space by Beth Gorham w Ashington ? Canadian astronaut Steve Maclean a Long wait to suit up and step into space is finally drawing to a close with the scheduled launch sunday of space shuttle Atlantis. Maclean 51, an Ottawa born father of three compares his anticipation to the impatient glee of a five year old on Christmas eve. And As the countdown began yester Day he arrived at Kennedy space Center by Jet with his five Crew members promising to bring Home the Gold from the Mission to resume construction on the International space station. Walking out to the pad will be much like walking into an olympic stadium declared Maclean who was on the Cana Dian National gymnastics team in the 1970s. I invite you All to watch what we do Over the next week it will be exciting he said. With a team like this i Promise you Well bring Home a Gold they looked Good to go with a 30 per cent Chance that bad weather would stymie lift off of Mission sts-115 at 430 . It sunday. And launch managers did to Forsee any technical problems. Maclean says that More than three years of delay after the Columbia disaster in february 2003 halted space Sta Tion work have been difficult for his wife Nadine and their teenagers. When your training gets extended you do not have As much time to spend with your family Maclean told the Canadian press by Telephone before he entered quarantine at Johnson space Center in Houston. Not a Day goes by said Maclean that he does to think about his buddies killed aboard Columbia when it disintegrated on re entry after a piece of insulating foam the size of a suitcase fell off the shuttle during lift off and ruptured part of its heat shield. But its critical to return to building the space station before the shuttle Fleet is retired in 2010, he said and there a Only 15 flights left. The 12-Day missions intricate work involves installing a supporting truss a huge Brace the size of a bus with solar panels to boost the orbiting stations Power setting the stage for the arrival in 2007 of european and japanese research labs. And Maclean whose first space flight was aboard Columbia in 1992, is More than prepared to assume the minimized risk of falling foam. It will not bite us again. I think that a important to the upside of spending four and a half years training with the same Crew said Maclean is that they re completely Cross trained for different tasks and probably better prepared than their predecessors for when things go wrong. Hell be joined by Atlantis Comman Der Brett Jett Pilot Chris Ferguson and Mission specialists Joe Tanner Heide Marie Piper and Dan Burbank. During what Nasa officials Call one of their most complicated missions Maclean will manipulate the huge robotic Crane on the space station canadarm2, to help install the solar pan Els plucked from shuttle using canadarm1. And Maclean will inspect Atlantis for damage using a Canadian made inspection Boom. There a also a Canadian vision system that helps operators of the robotic arms. On the spacewalk scheduled to last about six and a half hours Maclean and Burbank will be installing components like a rotary joint so the solar panels can swivel toward the Sun. ? 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