Astronauts step out on 1st spacewalk to fix Hubble

Title: Astronauts step out on 1st spacewalk to fix Hubble

Published: Thu, 14 May 2009

Description: (NECN) - Two spacewalking astronauts stepped outside today to begin repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope. John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel emerged from space shuttle Atlantis and quickly got started on their first job, a camera swap. ...

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" Atlantis and moving into an orbital sunrise as it just just crossed the equator to begin a 45 orbit of its mission. Tracking a northeasterly toward the coastline of Mexico. Just south of Acapulco. "

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