Reg Taylor's News Room

The bug is going around again.  It makes me glad I got a flu shot this year.  There is nothing worse than going to work during ratings period when you are sick.  The good folks here at FOX handed out germ-X and "wet ones" to help us out, but the coughing continues here.

I guess you just have to wash your hands and hope for the best.  I know what would be worse...being sick in space!

German astronaut Hans Schlegel was pulled off the first spacewalk of the mission shortly after he arrived at the international space station Saturday aboard Atlantis. Managers bumped the spacewalk and Columbus' hookup to the space station to Monday.

NASA declined to discuss the medical problem beyond saying it was not life-threatening, but a European flight controller confirmed Sunday that Schlegel had been ill and wished him a quick recovery.

The European Space Agency's Web site later said the illness was not contagious and probably would not prevent Schlegel from performing his other scheduled spacewalk.

(AP) This image provided by NASA, shows a slight protrusion of a thermal blanket on the starboard...

Full Image Schlegel, 56, a two-time space flier, sounded OK on Sunday morning when he spoke to Mission Control after waking up to music from fellow German Herbert Gronemeyer.

"Greetings to everybody in America, in Europe and in Germany, and especially of course to my close family and my lovely wife, Heike," he said.

He spent the morning helping his crewmates prepare for the spacewalk and looked fine as he floated around the station.

Someone always has it worse than you!