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[i]We flew around (to) soft dock, went ahead and ate and prepared for our standup EVA in an attempt to deploy that remaining solar wing. We undocked, flew around to the side during a night pass so that we were all ready to go as soon as it got daylight, we went ahead and dumped the cabin, opened the hatch, that first light, I went out the hatch, Joe stayed down in the lower equipment bay portion of the command module, steadied my feet and passed me portions of tools. We had various tools that fitted on the end of 5-foot sections of pole which screwed together. Using this and what we call a Shepherd's Hook, which was a large hook with which we intended to hook under the free end of the solar panel and break it loose and swing it out, Pete went ahead and drove the vehicle right on it, he had no problem station-keeping, which we're all glad to see, because we really had some concerns about his ability, with Joe and I thrashing around in the vehicle to control the vehicle in a pressurized suit. Uh, the command module hadn't ever really been flown by someone in a pressurized suit before. Uh, but it turned out to be a do-able job, we went ahead and hooked under the beam, the portion of the strap of the remaining piece of the meteoroid shield was still there, was wrapped up over the top of the beam however, was much stronger and practically welded in place. I heaved on the end of the beam on the pole, with the pole, hard enough to deflect the end of it about a foot and a half, according to Pete, pulled the two vehicles together and actually deflected the workshop, disturbed it from its inertial attitude, but it just wasn't enough to break that strap loose or do anything with it, so tired and discouraged with night coming on us, we then... ...Our assessment of the situation at the time, mine and Pete's, was that we did not have the right tools on board, I did ... we gave up on the hook and moved up to the strap, and we had a small two-prong tool onboard that actually we actually tried to then pry the strap loose, but we just couldn't get ahold of it and couldn't get enough leverage on it to pry it loose, so then we went, as we say, very discouraged, gave up, went back, redocked or attempted to redock, and that's when we got our next big surprise of not being able to make a successful capture, and that's the time when you really get down to the fourth-order backup procedure, which we never expected to use, and it was only kind of by chance that Pete and Joe really knew enough about it to go ahead and use it.[/i]
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