European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Story Musgrave left and fellow astronaut Jeffrey a. Hoffman train for their Mission in a Gigantic Pool at the Johnson space Center s weightless environment training facility in Houston. Nubble s head Mechanic is free spirit Bomarc Idunn the associated press Ore than a half Century ago on a 1,000-acre Dairy farm in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts a 5-year-old boy Learned the Art of tractor repair. Know your tools. Know your machine. Keep it going improvise if need be. I got used to tools and wrenches. I got used to making do keeping things running he says now. I really think that kind of making do when you re that Young it s a learning you get and you never forget it. So Here i am now working with Hubble. Here i am a Hubble Story Musgrave 58-year-old astronaut surgeon mathematician computer analyst Pilot parachutist sex Marine student of the humanities and metaphysics believer in intelligent lire in outer space is about to tackle the biggest repair Job of his life. When the space shuttle endeavour lifts off wednesday Musgrave will be its payload commander and chief space Walker his Mission to fix the Hubble space Telescope s nearsightedness and other maladies of the Courte of the 1 \ Day flight he will become Only the third person in tres world to try in space at least five times the if t person to i a five times on 4 pm to Hutie. The Ojik l Penon to take few Matt a. Of Diomei xxi from up above . They Van whip on Tjw but a inv then he think Hijazi up a. T dim i closer look space walkers answer troubled hobble s sos nobody imagined when Nasa launched the Hubble space Telescope in april 1990 that it would need so Many repairs so soon. But just two months after Hubble was launched the space Agency suffered one of the greatest embarrassments in its 30-some years the Telescope was found to have an improperly ground Mirror that blurred its View of extremely Distant objects. Other1 problems followed gyroscopes broke solar panels shuddered. Magnetometers faltered computer memory boards failed. Massive surgery was needed. Early last year Story Musgrave was put in charge of the repair project. Musgrave and three qty Jar experienced space walkers will go out to work on Hubble at least five and perhaps seven times. They plan to insert corrective lenses about the of a phone Booth install a new camera and replace As Many defective parts As possible. Here is a Brief look at their Mission. When shuttle endeavour is scheduled to blast off at 4 57 . Est wednesday. Where endeavour will rendezvous with. Hubble about 360 Miles above Earth. Who seven astronauts Are assigned to the Mission six americans and a Swiss. Each has flown in space before spacewalks a record five to seven spacewalks Are planned for Hubble repairs each lasting about six hours. No . Space Mission to Date has had More than four spacewalks. � space walkers four astronauts Are divided an Archt s View of the Hubble Telescope. Into teams of two taking turns going out. Each has space walked before. Space walk sequence spacewalks begin on flight Day four one Day after Hubble is captured with the shuttle robot a Mand secured in the cargo Bay and continue through at least flight Day eight Hubble to released by the robot after the last spacewalk. Flight duration the Mission is supposed to last 1 1 Days and end with a nighttime Landing at Kennedy space Center it at � be
