Telescopes that Rocked Our World
StarTalk Radio
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The Hubble Telescope
All the replacement instruments, we have to make special tools to interface with all of those instruments. So there's certain tools that are irregular extensions, drill, screwdrivers,. There's crew wigs, which are special handles or fixtures and things that move the instruments around. And so, and how hard is this? Well, the axial instruments are about the size of a refrigerator freezer. The other instruments that go on the side and the fine guidance sensor, they're about theSize of a baby grand piano. You've got big... You have to work out. Yeah, yeah. Well, you're in zero G. Now I have another question that brings me to speaking and being weight
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