The Malaysian cosmonaut really left a big bang. First the capsule carrying them off shoot and crash landed some miles away. Then, his brother passed away. Then, the solar panels at ISS fail to open fully because it tangles with some cable which ripped some part of the solar panel… pure coincidence or simply bad luck?

When I saw the ‘torn’ solar panel on the newspaper a few days ago… damm this is big trouble… But as usual, NASA always has backup plan… They use a physician astronaut who is a medical doctor by profession to fix it. It took him 4 hours to ‘stitch’ the torn panel. The mission is quite dangerous as touching the panels risked a shock from the 300 volts current they carried as compared to the 240 volts we have at home.

Shuttle Commander Pamela Melroy to Dr. Parazinsky, “It appears you have some kind of surgery to do Dr. Parazinsky.”