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How to Resolve ‘Hanging Chads’

Steve Robinson nspects the underside of Space Shuttle Discovery
How to remove a 'hanging chad.'

STS-114 mission specialist Steve Robinson, on the end of the station’s Canadarm2 (out of frame), slowly and cautiously makes his way to the underside of Space Shuttle Discovery to remove gap fillers, aka ‘hanging chads,’ from between the orbiter’s heat-shielding tiles during the mission’s third of three spacewalks.