Adventure team-building brings out the best

In space, there aren’t a lot of recourses when things go wrong. When astronauts first unfurled the solar arrays that would power the International Space Station, tangled guide wires tore a 30-inch hole in the $5.6 million apparatus and disabled one opening joint.

“This was a very serious problem,” Astronaut Dan Tani said of the experience in a prior interview. “The arrays needed to be fully deployed for them to be rotated to point them to the sun so that they can produce the maximum power [for the space station].”

The panels couldn’t be turned off through the repair, so 120…