A
blazing sun casts light onto Earth and a spacewalker during a servicing mission
to the Hubble Space Telescope on February 16, 1997.
Astronaut
Joseph Tanner, an STS-82 mission specialist, had his picture taken by fellow astronaut
Gregory Harbaugh during an extravehicular activity. Harbaugh's torso appears in
Tanner's helmet visor, and a checklist of tasks is attached to Tanner's left
arm.
The
two were making the fourth of five spacewalks to maintain Hubble during the STS-82
mission. The upcoming STS-125
mission in October 2008 will see the last maintenance finished on the space
telescope by a shuttle crew, before the space shuttle is slated
to retire in 2010.
— NASAand SPACE.com Staff
Credit: NASA
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