Eye on the Universe by Michael D. Cole

Author:Michael D. Cole [Cole, Michael D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4645-0981-0
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2013-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

Image Credit: Time & Life Pictures / Getty Images

Astronaut Kathy Thornton services equipment on the Hubble Space Telescope during the fourth spacewalk of the repair mission. Her task during this operation, along with Tom Akers, was to install COSTAR, the device that would correct the flaw in the telescope’s primary mirror.

Hoffman reached out his hand as they chased it. Down and down toward the payload bay they went.

Just as Hoffman’s feet were about to bump into the side of the payload bay, he caught it. “I have it,” he said.

“Okay, arm stop,” Musgrave said quickly.13

The screw was returned to the bag. With a sigh of relief, Musgrave and Hoffman went about their work and completed the repairs.

On the following day, the newly repaired Hubble Space Telescope was released back into orbit. The crew of Endeavour had done their best on the telescope. They had conducted five spacewalks—more spacewalks than any other American astronauts or Russian cosmonauts had ever conducted on any single mission. It was an impressive record. After eleven successful days in space, they were ready to come home.

Endeavour made a night landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As far as the astronauts knew, nothing had gone wrong on their mission. But they did not yet know if their mission had been a success.

NASA scientists and astronomers around the world once again focused their attention on the Hubble Space Telescope. All waited to see if the repairs had worked.

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