STS-37, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, 1991
The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory looms over STS-37 Mission Specialist Jay Apt as he works his way along the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis during the mission's first spacewalk. The unscheduled EVA was needed to free Compton's high-gain antenna, which was stuck in its launch configuration. STS-37, launch date April 5, 1991, the 8th flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, was a 6 day mission with the primary objective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the second of the Great Observatories program which included the visible-spectrum Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope.
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