Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Missions (1993 - 2009)

Spacewalks from Endeavour on Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 1 (STS-61)
STS-61 Launch: December 2, 1993 Hubble Grappled: December 4, 1993
Hubble Released: December 10, 1993 STS-61 Landing: December 13, 1993
Spacewalkers: Kathryn Thornton <> Jeffrey Hoffman <> Story Musgrave <> Thomas Akers
STS-61 Crew: CDR Richard Covey <> PLT Kenneth Bowersox <> MS1 Kathryn Thornton <>
MS2 Claude Nicollier (Switzerland) <> MS3 Jeffrey Hoffman <>
MS4 Story Musgrave <> MS5 Thomas Akers
STS-61 Spacewalk 1 Musgrave and Hoffman replaced two Rate Sensing Units (RSUs), two Electronics Control Units, and four fuse plugs. Each RSU contained a pair of gyroscopes.
December 5, 1993
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Start: 03:44 GMT
End: 11:38 GMT
STS-61 Spacewalk 2 Thornton and Akers installed new solar arrays to correct a "jitters" problem with the original solar arrays. The old starboard solar array was jettisoned since it failed to close properly. The old port solar array was stored in a carrier inside the payload bay.
December 6, 1993
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Start: 03:29 GMT
End: 10:05 GMT
STS-61 Spacewalk 3 Musgrave and Hoffman replaced the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC) with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2) to compensate for a flaw in Hubble's primary mirror. They also installed two new magnetometers near Hubble's aperture and four more fuse plugs.
December 7, 1993
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Start: 03:35 GMT
End: 10:22 GMT
STS-61 Spacewalk 4 Thornton and Akers replaced the Goddard High-Speed Photometer (GHSP) with the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) unit to correct flaw in the primary mirror and installed a 386 co-processor to enhance the memory and speed of Hubble's 1970's-era DF-224 computer.
December 8, 1993
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Start: 03:13 GMT
End: 10:03 GMT
STS-61 Spacewalk 5 Musgrave and Hoffman replaced the Solar Array Drive Electronics (SADE) unit and installed the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) power supply redundancy kit. They helped with the deployment of Hubble's new solar arrays.
December 9, 1993
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Start: 03:30 GMT
End: 10:51 GMT

Spacewalks from Discovery on Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 2 (STS-82)
STS-82 Launch: February 11, 1997 Hubble Grappled: February 13, 1997
Hubble Released: February 19, 1997 STS-82 Landing: February 21, 1997
Spacewalkers: Joseph Tanner <> Gregory Harbaugh <> Mark Lee <> Steven Smith
STS-82 Crew: CDR Kenneth Bowersox <> PLT Scott Horowitz <> MS1 Joseph Tanner <>
MS2 Steven Hawley <> MS3 Gregory Harbaugh <> MS4 Mark Lee <>
MS5 Steven Smith
STS-82 Spacewalk 1 Lee and Smith replaced the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). Lee and Smith also replaced the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).
February 14, 1997
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Start: 04:34 GMT
End: 11:16 GMT
STS-82 Spacewalk 2 Harbaugh and Tanner replaced a degraded Fine Guidance Sensor and a failed Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with new spares. They also installed a new unit called the Optical Control Electronics Enhancement Kit to increase the capability of the new Fine Guidance Sensor.
February 15, 1997
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Start: 03:25 GMT
End: 10:52 GMT
STS-82 Spacewalk 3 Lee and Smith replaced a Data Interface Unit, and an old reel-to-reel style Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with a new digital Solid State Recorder (SSR), and changed out one of four Reaction Wheel Assembly units.
February 16, 1997
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Start: 02:53 GMT
End: 10:04 GMT
STS-82 Spacewalk 4 Harbaugh and Tanner replaced a Solar Array Drive Electronics package and covers over Hubble's magnetometers, and started installing new insulation.
February 17, 1997
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Start: 03:45 GMT
End: 10:19 GMT
STS-82 Spacewalk 5 After Lee and Smith noticed degraded thermal insulation on Hubble during the second spacewalk, a fifth spacewalk was added to the mission. Lee and Smith attached several thermal blankets over three equipment compartments.
February 18, 1997
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Start: 03:15 GMT
End: 08:32 GMT

Spacewalks from Discovery on Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3A (STS-103)
STS-103 Launch: December 20, 1999 Hubble Grappled: December 22, 1999
Hubble Released: December 25, 1999 STS-103 Landing: December 28, 1999
Spacewalkers: Steven Smith <> John Grunsfeld <> Michael Foale <> Claude Nicollier
STS-103 Crew: CDR Curtis Brown <> PLT Scott Kelly <> MS1 Steven Smith <>
MS2 Jean-François Clervoy (France) <> MS3 John Grunsfeld <>
MS4 Michael Foale <> MS5 Claude Nicollier (Switzerland)
STS-103 Spacewalk 1 Smith and Grunsfeld replaced all six gyroscopes, installed six Voltage/Temperature Improvement Kits to prevent overheating or overcharging of Hubble's batteries, and opened values and removed caps on the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).
December 22 - 23, 1999
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Start: 18:54 GMT (Dec. 22)
End: 03:09 GMT (Dec. 23)
STS-103 Spacewalk 2 Foale and Nicollier installed a new advanced computer and a new Fine Guidance sensor. The new computer contained a 486 processor that replaced the old 1970's-era DF-224 computer.
December 23 - 24, 1999
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Start: 19:06 GMT (Dec. 23)
End: 03:16 GMT (Dec. 24)
STS-103 Spacewalk 3 Smith and Grunsfeld installed a new transmitter that replaced one that failed in 1998, and replaced an old reel-to-reel style Engineering and Science Tape Recorder with a new digital Solid State Recorder.
December 24 - 25, 1999
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Start: 19:17 GMT (Dec. 24)
End: 03:25 GMT (Dec. 25)

Spacewalks from Columbia on Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3B (STS-109)
STS-109 Launch: March 1, 2002 Hubble Grappled: March 3, 2002
Hubble Released: March 9, 2002 STS-109 Landing: March 12, 2002
Spacewalkers: John Grunsfeld <> Richard Linnehan <> James Newman <> Michael Massimino
STS-109 Crew: CDR Scott Altman <> PLT Duane Carey <> MS1 John Grunsfeld <>
MS2 Nancy Currie <> MS3 Richard Linnehan <> MS4 James Newman <>
MS5 Michael Massimino
STS-109 Spacewalk 1 Grunsfeld and Linnehan replaced the old starboard solar array with a new third-generation solar array and replaced its associated Diode Box Assembly.
March 4, 2002
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Start: 06:37 GMT
End: 13:38 GMT
STS-109 Spacewalk 2 Newman and Massimino replaced the old port solar array with a new third-generation solar array and replaced its associated Diode Box Assembly. They also replaced a troublesome reaction wheel assembly unit.
March 5, 2002
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Start: 06:40 GMT
End: 13:56 GMT
STS-109 Spacewalk 3 Grunsfeld and Linnehan replaced the Power Control Unit. The operation required Hubble to be powered down for the first time since deployment in April 1990.
March 6, 2002
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Start: 08:28 GMT
End: 15:16 GMT
STS-109 Spacewalk 4 Newman and Massimino replaced the Faint Object Camera (FOC) with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The Faint Object Camera was the last of Hubble's original instruments.
March 7, 2002
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Start: 09:00 GMT
End: 16:30 GMT
STS-109 Spacewalk 5 Grunsfeld and Linnehan installed the new NICMOS Cryogenic Cooler and its Cooling System Radiator to revive the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).
March 8, 2002
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Start: 08:46 GMT
End: 16:06 GMT

Spacewalks from Atlantis on Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 (STS-125)
STS-125 Launch: May 11, 2009 Hubble Grappled: May 13, 2009
Hubble Released: May 19, 2009 STS-125 Landing: May 24, 2009
Spacewalkers: John Grunsfeld <> Andrew Feustel <> Michael Massimino <> Michael Good
STS-125 Crew: CDR Scott Altman <> PLT Gregory Carl Johnson <> Michael Good <>
MS2 Megan McArthur <> MS3 John Grunsfeld <> MS4 Michael Massimino <>
MS5 Andrew Feustel
STS-125 Spacewalk 1 Grunsfeld and Feustel replaced the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2) with the Wide Filed Camera 3 (WFC-3), and the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Unit (SI C&DH) with a spare unit. They also installed two of three Latch Over Center Kits (LOCK), and a Soft Capture Mechanism (SCM).
May 14, 2009
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Start: 12:54 GMT
End: 20:12 GMT
STS-125 Spacewalk 2 Massimino and Good replaced all six gyroscopes, and all three batteries in Bay 2. Rate Sensor Unit (RSU) 1007 didn't fit into the Hubble Space Telescope, so a spare RSU was installed in its place.
May 15, 2009
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Start: 12:50 GMT
End: 20:48 GMT
STS-125 Spacewalk 3 Grunsfeld and Feustel replaced the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) unit with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), and repaired the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
May 16, 2009
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Start: 13:35 GMT
End: 20:11 GMT
STS-125 Spacewalk 4 Massimino and Good repaired the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). A stripped bolt on an EVA handle on the STIS delayed the repair work until Massimino literally tore the handle off.
May 17, 2009
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Start: 13:47 GMT
End: 21:48 GMT
STS-125 Spacewalk 5 Grunsfeld and Feustel replaced all three batteries in Bay 3, and a Fine Guidance sensor. They also installed New Outer Blanket Layers 5, 7 & 8 (NOBL 5, 7 & 8) insulation.
May 18, 2009
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Start: 12:25 GMT
End: 19:23 GMT

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