/1/rss_feeds/NASA_Spacesuits_Historygallery/nasa_spacesuits_historygallery:shuttle-apr83/138273_shuttle-xml_Feed.rss image Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, getting his turn in the Manned Maneuvering Unit, prepares to dock with the spinning WESTAR VI satellite during the STS-51A mission. Gardner used a large tool called the Apogee Kick Motor Capture Device to enter the nozzle of a spent WESTAR VI engine and stabilize the communications spacecraft sufficiently to capture it for return to Earth in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery. NASA http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacesuits/historygallery/shuttle-nov84a.html 7/29/2008 2008 Public Domain Space Shuttle -- November 1984 What -- STS-51A What -- Earth What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter What -- Discovery STS-51A Earth Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery BonnieReal 2009-08-19 23:11:18 258767main_51A-46-0057_full bonnie@archive.org 2009-08-20 00:14:02 2009-08-20 00:20:24 nasa spacesuitandspacewalkhistoryimagegallery