Dec 13 1993
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
The Space Shuttle Endeavour landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after an 11-day mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
The flight was considered the most complex mission in more than 12 years of Shuttle flying, the biggest space repair job ever, and NASA's biggest challenge since the Apollo Moon landings 20 years ago.
During their five spacewalks, astronauts successfully replaced two of three pairs of gyroscopes (used to position the telescope) and their control unit; replaced two solar panels that supply electricity; installed another set of corrective optics to compensate for flaw in signal to other instruments; fixed two magnetometers, which tell NASA the position of the satellite; upgraded the Hubble computer; and installed a new camera with corrective lenses to compensate for flaw in Hubble's primary mirror.
According to NASA scientists, Hubble's new optics would have to be fine-tuned and tested for six to eight weeks before NASA would he able to tell whether the repairs actually had worked. (RTW, Dec 6/93, Dec 7/93, Dec 8/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 12/93, Dec 13/93; APn, Dec, 8/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 13/93; WP, Dec 7/93, Dec 12/93; W Times, Dec 6/93; Dec 7/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 10/93; USA Today, Dec 6/93, Dec 7/93, Dec 9/93; Dec 10/93, Dec 13/93, Dec 15/93; NY Times, Dec 4/93, Dec 5/93, Dec 6/93, Dec 7/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 10/93, Dec 11/93; Dec 12/93; LA Times, Dec 5/93, Dec 7/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 10/93; Dec 13/93; CSM, Dec 6/93, Dec 7, Dec 10/93; P Inq, Dec 5/93, Dec 10/93; B Sun, Dec 5/93, Dec 6/93, Dec 7/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 10/93, Dec 11/93, Dec 12/993, Dec 13/93; Dec 19/93; APn, Dec 6, Dec 7/93, Dec 8/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 10/93, Dec 12/93, Dec 13/93; W Times, Dec 4/93, Dec 5/93, Dec 6/93; Dec 9/93, Dec 12/93, Dec 13/93; UPn, Dec 6/93, Dec 7/93, Dec 8/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 10/93, Dec 13/93; Time, Dec 12/93; 0 Sen, Dec 7/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 11/93; W Post, Dec 4/93, Dec 5/93, Dec 6/93, Dec 9/93, Dec 11/93, Dec 12/93, Dec 13/93; C Trib, Dec 5/93, Dec 12/93; Newsweek, Dec 6/93; WSJ, Dec 9/93; H Chron, Dec 9/93; H Post, Dec 9/93; Fla Today, Dec 9/93, Dec 14/93)
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