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Hubble space telescope: second repair mission 02/1997

auteur: Nasa/Novapix

référence: e-sou01-21200

Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 20 cm

Astronaut Smith carrying the Goddard High resolution spectrograph (GHRS) on EVA 1.
EVA 1 began at 11:34 p.m. EST, Feb. 13, and lasted six hours, 42 minutes. Lee and Smith removed two scientific instruments from Hubble, the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) and Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), and replaced them with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), respectively.

Keywords for this photo:

1997 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - ASTRONAUT - ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMY - CANADARM - DISCOVERY - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EVA - EXTRA VEHICULAR ACTIVITY - EXTRA-VEHICULAR ACTIVITY - EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY - HST - HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - HUMAN - MAN - PAYLOAD BAY - ROBOTIC ARM - SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT - SMITH STEVEN - SPACE - SPACE SHUTTLE - SPACE SUIT - SPECTROMETER - STS-82 -