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US astronauts equip Hubble on third spacewalk - AFP

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on May 16, 2009 11:34 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
3 days ago HOUSTON, Texas (AFP) — Two US astronauts ventured into open space for a third time Saturday to overhaul the aging Hubble Space Telescope and equip the 19-year-old observatory with a new key instrument.

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Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel were working on decking out Hubble in a bid to extend Hubble's observations for at least five years. The new science instrument to install, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, was developed to study the grand scale structure of the universe to explain how galaxies formed and clustered.

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