THE NATION - News from May 14, 2009
Atlantis’ astronauts grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope with their robot arm and brought it into the cargo bay, then set their sights on the difficult, dangerous and unprecedented spacewalking repairs they will attempt over the next five days.
Hubble and Atlantis are flying in a 350-mile-high orbit littered with space junk. Some of that debris put a bit of a scare into NASA when a 4-inch piece was spotted approaching the shuttle. The debris passed by harmlessly after Mission Control in Cape Canaveral decided there was no need to move the shuttle.
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