THE ASTRONAUT WHO CAPTURED A SATELLITE

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program:
your tax dollar will go farther.
  - Wernher von Braun.

Credit: STS-51A, NASA

In 1984, high above the Earth's surface, an astronaut captured a satellite. It was the second satellite captured that mission. Pictured above, astronaut Dale A. Gardner flies free using the Manned Maneuvering Unit and begins to attach a control device dubbed the Stinger to the rotating Westar 6 satellite. Communications satellite Westar 6 had suffered a rocket malfunction that left it unable to reach its intended high geosynchronous orbit. Both the previously caught Palapa B-2 satellite and the Westar 6 satellite were guided into the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery and returned to Earth. Westar 6 was subsequently refurbished and sold.

What an amazing age we are living in!  I can only hope that we will apply our creativity and energies to exploring and mastering our inner spaces with the same enthusiasm and prgress as we are making in outer space.

- Daniel Benor, MD

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