Astronaut Dale Gardner was all for make a quick horse by resell a couplet of stray satellites he rescued from orbit , but the insurance caller importune he render them to Earth first .
Astronauts Dale A. Gardner and Joseph P. Allen IV ( seeable in visor reflexion ) were sent out on a second extravehicular activity ( EVA ) in just three day to call back a pair of satellite that did n’t successfully reach compass . The Palapa B2 and Westar 6 were released from a distance shuttle in February 1984 , but after their Payload Assist Modules fail to fire and boost them into orbit they were retrieve in November of that yr . corner of each satellite are seeable in the lower proper nook of the photograph , with Westar 6 further aft .
I have it away , I know : This face like a meme just waiting to be expose , but this is a genuine photo from a real spacewalk . The creative classified advertizing was appropriate : after being returned to Earth for restoration , both satelites were resold by their insurance caller and relaunched in April 1990.Westar 6was sold to Pan Am Pacific Satellite Corp. , then resold to Asia Satellite as AsiaSat 1.Palapa B2was resold to Perumtel and rename as Palapa B2R.
Gardner died of a brain aneurysm in 2014 .
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