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Robert Satcher's Self-Portrait

 
Astronaut Robert Satcher uses a digital still camera to expose take a self-portrait during the STS-129 mission's first spacewalk. During the six-hour, 37-minute spacewalk, Satcher and astronaut Mike Foreman installed a spare S-band antenna structural assembly to the Z1 segment of the station's truss, or backbone. Satcher and Foreman also installed a set of cables for a future space-to-ground antenna on the Destiny laboratory and replaced a handrail on the Unity node with a new bracket used to route an ammonia cable that will be needed for the Tranquility node when it is delivered next year. The two spacewalkers also repositioned a cable connector on Unity, checked S0 truss cable connections and lubricated latching snares on the Kibo robotic arm and the station's mobile base system. Image Credit: NASA
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First Club Meeting - This Tuesday!

Tuesday, October 12th 11AM-1PM.  Everyone is invited!  Feel free to bring friends and family!

Physics Reception and 1st general meeting: Bldg. 4 1st floor conference room, Room# 314

We earnestly invite all students of any background who seek interest in physics to attend this general meeting. This is indeed a great opportunity to not only meet the physics club members and officers, and the latest events for the 2009-2010 school year! Being part of this year’s Society of Physics Students will allow you to not only be well informed about opportunities pertinent to physics academia, but it will give you an opportunity to connect with and form a commodore with the physics majors, all of which have diverse and common interests here on campus.  More importantly, our group not only has knowledge about physics, but we also know how to have fun with physics! ;-) This year’s chapter is dedicated to growing with of all our members and we are actively seeking ways to potentiate intellectual growth, curiosity and inspiration for studying the wonders of physics.

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