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Media:  IMAGE
Format:  JPEG (640 x 480)
Date:  12.08.1993
Title:  Astronauts Thornton and Akers in payload bay during EVA to replace COSTAR
Description:  Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton lifts the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) prior to its installation on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Thornton is anchored to a foot restraint on the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm. Astronaut Thomas D. Akers, who assisted in the COSTAR installation, is at lower left.
ID:  STS061-47-014
Credit:  NASA Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC)
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Sponsor: NASA STI (Scientific and Technical Information) Program
Date: 01.20.2004