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NASA, STS-125: two more spacewalks completed

Cape Canaveral, USA - Problems during the fourth extravehicular activity

Mission STS-125's cosmonauts completed yesterday at 5:47 pm EDT the fourth of five spacewalks scheduled to perform final maintenance works on the Hubble space telescope. The two mission specialists encountered some trouble that delayed their work as they were forced to remove a panel fixed with 111 screws, having to pay attention not to let them float away in space. For this reason the installation...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1104590
Rome, Italy, 05/18/2009 14:37
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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