Part of the reason I hesitated to mention it is that I'm sure I've told that story before, and the only thing worse than a name-dropper is a serial name-dropper. But at least it's been a few years, so it's not that obnoxious.

I was reading a little more about the concern about the live wires, and it looks like my comment about how there must be a circuit-breaker was a little hasty. I guess it makes sense that right at the solar cells there would be current-carrying wires upstream of the first breaker. It is going to be tricky, not so much because of any risk of electrocution, but because he just might short something out with a wrench. But still, it's in good hands.

I was thinking about your comment about learning skills in orbit, and I'll bet that Scott Parazynski's ready to go to the Moon. Not just in the sense that he wants to, but because his specialty traces its lineage directly back to Apollo and the challenge of getting out and walking around. The EVA experiments in Gemini were directed primarily at that goal, and it was one of the major challenges that had to be solved. Scott and his colleagues have had 40 years to build on that experience through hundreds more hours of experience since Apollo. Their technology's better, and they've learned how to build in space, which wasn't a challenge Apollo had to face. I'll bet they're up to building a Lunar habitat by now. If only they had a ship to get there...