Handprints on Hubble – with Kathryn D Sullivan
Ri Science Podcast
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No Hubble Servicing Crew Will Ever Have to Say, Hageys, This Doesn't Fit
Every single tool is going to be fitted and checked on every single bolt and fitting on the telescope. We did that because we had watched two other nasamicians go up and try to repair or retrieve satellites that had failed while they were already in orbit, without any of this foresight applied to them. In both cases, there was some small thing on the satellite. And i mean about the size of a button on a gentleman's shirt, a small things on the satellite that prevented one of the critical tools from fitting. It put the whole mission into massive improvisation mode to try to overcome that problem, or get around that issue. They succeeded in both cases. But you can't put
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