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Old June 20th 12, 07:41 AM posted to sci.space.station
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Default Grapple fixture details

Snidely explained on 6/19/2012 :
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M Ross scribbled something like ...

Snidely scribbled something like ...

From watching the video of the capture, I'm curious as to how the
grapple fixture is actually deployed.

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It is on the back side of a panel, which opens to reveal it for capture.
The panel closes for re-entry.

Mike Ross


Thanks, Mike!


Also, check out the hi-res image at
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-31/html/iss031e071146.html


Even better,
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/gallery/iss031e070745.html

(There are about 1000 paths to image galleries on NASA web sites; each
one finds sets that differ from the other paths.)

/dps

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