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On this day in 2009 – May 18th – the final spacewalk to service the Hubble Space Telescope took place.

The servicing mission was carried out in mission STS-125 aboard Atlantis. There were five spacewalks altogether, the final one carried out by astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel.


Mona Evans
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