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Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Installed (2009)

Astronaut Andrew Feustel, perched alone on the end of the Space Shuttle Atlantis' remote manipulator system arm, participates in the first of five STS-125 spacewalks to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope, temporarily locked down in the cargo bay of the Earth-orbiting shut...

Date
Apr 24, 1990
Mission
Hubble Space Telescope
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hubblesite-images-4537-image
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Astronaut Andrew Feustel, perched alone on the end of the Space Shuttle Atlantis' remote manipulator system arm, participates in the first of five STS-125 spacewalks to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope, temporarily locked down in the cargo bay of the Earth-orbiting shuttle. Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3, center white panel) is nestled into the Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4.

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