Feb 19 1997
From The Space Library
Discovery's crew released the HST from the Shuttle's cargo bay after nearly a week of maintenance and refurbishing work. The astronauts had conducted a fifth spacewalk, one more than NASA had originally planned, to place a makeshift patch on the HST's peeling insulation. "It's not the Hubble Space Telescope. It's really Hubble Space Telescope II," remarked NASA's chief Hubble scientist upon releasing the telescope. NASA deemed the mission a complete success.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
