David Hollis exited the cabin to examine the MDM. It couldn't be repaired, it could only be replaced.
Fortunately, the ferocity of the Russian Union rocket was unequivocal. It completed the docking in three hours and forty minutes, successfully performing a space delivery task.
At last, with the help of a safety tether, David Hollis and the Russian astronaut completed the spacewalk, replacing the electrical component and ensuring the power system.
The whole operation took exactly five hours.
Stable voltage removed the worry of any downtime for the robotic arm's control system.
The surgery could proceed, but time was running short for Yang Ping.
All over the angiogram of the brain, a micro-aneurysm had expanded perilously close to its limit - ready to burst at any moment. A second started to inflate speedily, and a third was appearing faintly.
IBM's Watson had been right, there was a second aneurysm. Yang Ping was also right - a third was quietly surfacing.
