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Servicing Hubble

Artist: John Solie, 1995

Media: Oil

 

Description: The painting depicts the historic servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1992.

 

Kathryn Thorton releases a defective solar panel into the heavens as another astronaut performs duties in the space shuttle Endeavour's cargo bay.

 

The solar array and the wide-field planetary camera were some of the major units serviced during the STS-61 mission.

 

Image Credit: John Solie

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Courtesy: NASA Art Program

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