Astronaut F. Story Musgrave moves about in Space Shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay during the deployment of the solar array panels on the Hubble Space Telescope during the final of five STS-61 spacewalks. The left hand of astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman appears at the lower left corner.
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A close-up view of the tiny, articulating fold mirrors that would be built into the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera. The replacement instrument, Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), was installed during the first servicing mission to Hubble in December 1993. WFPC2, along with the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR), focused the blurry vision that had plagued the telescope since launch. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, created the replacement system.
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Wearing training versions of Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Units, astronauts Thomas D. Akers (red stripe) and Kathryn C. Thornton use the spacious pool of the Johnson Space Center's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F) to rehearse for the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, Servicing Mission 1. Divers accompany them to provide assistance in the tank. They are working with a full-scale mockup of a solar array fixture.
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Wearing a training version of the Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit, astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman uses the giant pool of the Johnson Space Center's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F) to rehearse for the Hubble Space Telescope's Servicing Mission 1. The hand at left belongs to a SCUBA-equipped diver. A number of divers were on hand for all training sessions in the WET-F.
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Astronaut and Mission Specialist Kathryn Thornton readies herself for submersion into the water of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Neutral Buoyancy Simulator (NBS) for a training session for the first Hubble servicing mission. The NBS provided the weightless environment needed for practicing spacewalks.
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