Hubble servicing mission prospects improve with test of shuttle boom
Astronauts Mike Fossum and Piers Sellers bounced, swayed and pushed at the end of a 100-foot robotic-arm extender boom during the first spacewalk of the STS-121 space shuttle mission on July 8, flight-testing the boom as a potential work platform for repairs to a damaged orbiter heat shield. Mission...
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