STS-61 | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61


00:01:21 1 Crew
00:01:29 1.1 Backup Crew
00:01:37 1.2 Spacewalks
00:03:37 2 Mission highlights
00:03:46 2.1 Launch
00:05:36 2.2 Flight Day 2
00:06:17 2.3 Flight Day 3
00:09:41 2.4 Spacewalk #1 (Flight Day 4)
00:13:40 2.5 Spacewalk #2
00:16:49 2.6 Spacewalk #3 (Flight Day 6)
00:18:53 2.7 Spacewalk #4 (Flight Day 7)
00:22:00 2.8 Spacewalk #5 (Flight Day 8)
00:24:18 2.9 Release of Hubble and Landing
00:26:00 3 See also
00:26:21 4 External links
00:26:42 5 Notes



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STS-61 was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on 2 December 1993 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission restored the spaceborne observatory's vision, marred by spherical aberration, with the installation of a new main camera and a corrective optics package. This correction occurred more than three and a half years after the Hubble was launched aboard STS-31 in April 1990. The flight also brought instrument upgrades and new solar arrays to the telescope. With its very heavy workload, the STS-61 mission was one of the most complex in the Shuttle's history. It lasted almost 11 days, and crew members made five spacewalks (EVAs), an all-time record. Even the re-positioning of Intelsat VI on STS-49 in May 1992 required only four. The flight plan allowed for two additional EVAs, which could have raised the total number to seven. The final two contingency EVAs were not made. In order to complete the mission without too much fatigue, the five extravehicular working sessions were shared between two pairs of different astronauts alternating their shifts. During the flight, mission specialist Jeffrey A. Hoffman also spun a driedel for the holiday of Chanukah.