NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was designed for supportability by Space Shuttle astronauts performing extravehicular activities (EVAs), or spacewalks, to service, maintain, repair, and upgrade the telescope. Through three successful servicing missions to date, EVA processes have been developed by applying a series of important lessons learned. These lessons learned are also applicable to many other future human spaceflight and robotic missions, such as International Space Station, satellite retrieval and servicing, and long-duration spaceflight. HST has become NASA’s pathfinder for observatories, EVA development, and EVA mission execution.
Lessons learned from Hubble Space Telescope extra vehicular activity supportability
Space Technology and Applications International Forum - 2001 ; 2001 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 552 , 1 ; 176-188
2001-02-02
13 pages
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Lessons Learned from Hubble Space Telescope Extra Vehicular Activity Supportability
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