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Hubble space telescope: second repair mission 02/1997

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-sou01-21200

Date

2006-11-14

Astronaut Smith carrying the Goddard High resolution spectrograph (GHRS) on EVA 1.EVA 1 began at 11:34 p.m. EST, Feb. 13, and lasted six hours, 42 minutes. Lee and Smith removed two scientific instruments from Hubble, the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) and Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), and replaced them with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), respectively.