Today, astronauts aboard the International Space Station are seeing their hard work being paid off. Late Friday morning the team aboard the orbiting outpost pushed a button that commanded one of the solar wings to begin unfolding. The 115-foot wing will take several hours to unfold according to NASA.The team members aboard the ISS watched intently as the wing began to unfold with their finger on the abort button in case something goes wrong. In 2007 during the same procedure a wing ripped and they do not want another occurrence of that incident.
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