A parting view of the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009, was photographed by the STS-125 shuttle crew, which was the last to service the observatory.
Credit: NASA
One of the first things then-astronaut John Grunsfeld and his spacewalking partner Drew Feustel tackled during the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope was to install a soft-capture mechanism onto the observatory’s aft bulkhead. With just nine flights remaining before the 1981-2011...
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