Servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. The vast Hubble Space Telescope (HST) seen in the cargo bay of Shuttle Endeavour at the end of the last spacewalk during the servicing mission,STS-61. Astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman are seen at the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm at top right. In a series of five spacewalks,the crew of the Shuttle replaced one of the HST's cameras and its solar panels,installed a corrective optics package and completed many other servicing tasks. The backdrop to this image is the coast of Western Australia. Mission STS-61 flew on 2-13 December 1993 | |
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