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Prepping a Fine Guidance Sensor for Return to Earth (1999) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Prepping a Fine Guidance Sensor for Return to Earth (1999)

December 23, 1999 · NASA

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Astronauts C. Michael Foale, left, and Claude Nicollier (on Discovery's robotic arm) install one of Hubble's three Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) into a protective enclosure in the Shuttle's payload bay while orbiting above ocean and clouds.