Astronaut Stephen K. Robinson, mission specialist, at the controls of Discovery's remote manipulator system (RMS) robot arm November 3. The Spartan 201-05 satellite can be seen in the grasp of the RMS at left. NASA ground controllers kept an eye on the remnants of catastrophic Hurricane Mitch Thursday as it lashed into the west coast of Florida ahead of this weekend's scheduled landing of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery.

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