Shuttle Atlantis<\/a> launched a mission to make vital repairs and upgrades to the Hubble Telescope, the world’s first space-based observatory, 563 kilometers above the Earth.<\/p>\nOn board was an IMAX camera, operated by the Shuttle astronauts. It captured stunning sequences of the intricate spacewalks required to make those repairs, as well as close-up images of the effort to grasp the orbiting telescope with the shuttle’s mechanical arm at 28,200 kph.<\/p>\n
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