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Astronauts spacewalk to repair Hubble

By T.K. Randall
May 17, 2009 · Comment icon 1 comment

Image Credit: NASA/ESA
Astronauts paid a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday and performed some of the toughest spacewalks yet, installing a new high-tech instrument and repairing a broken camera on the ageing astronomical platform.
Spacewalking astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a better view of the cosmos by installing a new high-tech instrument Saturday, then pulled off their toughest job yet: fixing a broken camera. "


Source: PhysOrg.com | Comments (1)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by BlackRedLittleDevil 16 years ago
Its a pretty dangerous job with the amount of orbital debris travelling around Earth.


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