SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Apollo 10, Galaxy Mystery, More

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Apollo 10, Galaxy Mystery, More
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May 18, 2009--Seeming to float above the Gulf of California (Golfo de California), space shuttle astronaut Andrew Feustel (center) participates in the fifth and final spacewalk of NASA's last hands-on repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

The mission successfully installed two new science tools, fixed two ailing ones, and replaced batteries and gyrators.

After weather-related delays, the returning shuttle Atlantis touched down on May 24—two days late but safe—at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

(View more photographs of the Hubble repair mission.)
—Photograph courtesy NASA
 
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