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How to fold a solar panel -- NASA style

NASA has a head scratching problem. They can't get a solar panel on the international space station to fold up properly -- it's crinkling and folding like a map that just won't cooperate. On Friday NASA engineers will try several techniques to get the pesky panel retracted.

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