With five days of service and upgrade work on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) behind them, the STS-109 crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia took a photograph of the entire telescope in the shuttle's cargo bay. The seven-member crew completed the last of its five ambitious spacewalks on March 8, 2002, with the successful installation of an experimental cooling system for Hubble’s Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). The NICMOS had been dormant since January 1999 when its original coolant ran out.
Credit: NASA
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