Astronauts hard at work during first spacewalk
by colleen on May.14, 2009, under SM4
The astronauts are just over four hours into the first EVA (spacewalk). WFPC2 has been removed and the new WFC3 has been installed. View WFPC2’s last “pretty picture”.
Grunsfeld and Feustel are replacing the main Hubble computer while they fly over a dark Madagascar, headed for an orbital sunrise in less than a half an hour.
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ESA/Hubble Outreach Coordinator Colleen Sharkey blogs live from the launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA and from Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where a team of European engineers and scientists provide mission support.
May 15th, 2009 on 10:10
Fascinating! the Astronauts are heroes!