The Hubble Repair That Came Down to One Screw

One stripped screw stopped a repair outside Hubble. The solution sounded like the opposite of careful engineering: break the handrail off. But the pull was only the beginning. This is the story of STS-125, the telescope’s last shuttle servicing mission, and the tools, rehearsals and people that made a delicate electronics repair possible in orbit. 0:00 One screw, one last visit 0:39 The mission that almost vanished 2:00 Inside the broken instrument 3:12 One hundred and eleven fasteners 4:17 The screw that stopped the job 5:17 A tested change of plan 6:35 The actual repair 7:57 The final handover Archival footage: NASA / Johnson Space Center / Goddard Space Flight Center. Selected excerpts from the 2009 STS-125 mission and separately labeled preflight training, via https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13160/ . Source audio removed; footage selected, scaled and annotated. Original narration and music by The Net Archive. No NASA endorsement implied. Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/history/15-years... https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubb... https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/sm4... #Hubble #SpaceHistory #TheNetArchive