Removing HST's old camers
This picture was taken during the third space walk of the HST's First Servicing
Mission. The original Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC-1) has been
removed. Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, standing on the robot arm, grips it
by the portable hand-hold, which has been bolted onto the camera during
the space walk. A crucial piece of his equipment, the power ratchet tool,
can be seen at his waist. He used it for unbolting the WF/PC-1 from the
HST. Now he is preparing to clamp the camera temporarily on the grey bracket
visible at lower left center. Later WF/PG1 was put into a box the size
of a grand piano that had been used to bring the new camera, WPC2, up from
Earth. The old camera was brought back, first to the Goddard Space Flight
Center, and then to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, so it could be inspected
and any reusable parts taken out.
The gold-coloured object at the lower left is a camera, which can be
operated both from the crew cabin on the Shuttle and from the ground. This
camera supplied much of the video coverage of the space walks during the
HST First Servicing Mission.
Astronaut Story Musgrave, who is not in the picture, was Hoffman's partner
on this space walk.
Credit: NASA
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