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As Tasks at Hubble End, No Tears, but It Was Close [1]

There is no crying in space, but Monday was perhaps as close as it gets to a blubberfest in space helmets.

As he headed into the airlock of the space shuttle Atlantis after the fifth and final spacewalk to tune up the Hubble Space Telescope, the astronaut and astronomer John M. Grunsfeld paused to pay tribute to the telescope and the human spirit.

Publication Date: 
19/05/2009
Dennis Overbye [2]
New York Times (New York) [3]
Tags:
Astronomy [4], Space Technology [5], Research [6]

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