Endeavour was also the shuttle that ferried the first Hubble Space Telescope repair crew. Astronauts on STS-61 fitted Hubble with adaptive optics to correct a faulty mirror, installed new solar ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories ... In December 1993 astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour performed five days of spacewalks to repair the telescope in orbit some 353 miles (569 ...

Had Atlantis suffered major damage during ascent, the first option would have been to attempt spacewalks to repair ... the Hubble Servicing Mission gamble paid off. For Endeavour, the original ...

A mission to repair the faulty Hubble telescope in outer space is declared an unqualified success after astronauts completed the latest of a record five space walks. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hofman ...