Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing. Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton engaged in extravehicular activity (EVA), on 6 Dec 1993, during the HST servicin

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Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing. Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton engaged in extravehicular activity (EVA), on 6 Dec 1993, during the HST servicing mission STS-061. Thornton is on the end of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, with equipment associated with servicing tasks for the Hubble Space Telescope during the second EVA on the eleven-day mission. Astronauts Thornton and Thomas D. Akers changed out the solar array panels during this EVA.

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