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Mar
7 - Flight Day 7 (EVA4) :: Installing the
Electronic Support Module
Once ACS was secured into place, the Astronauts
proceeded to install the Electronic Support
Module (ESM). The ESM is designed to work
with the NICMOS Cryo-Cooler (NCC) to bring
the NICMOS camera back to life. Other small
tasks were also accomplished.
Mar
7 - Flight Day 7 (EVA4) :: Installing ACS
Astronauts Jim Newman and Mike Massimino
installed the new Advanced Camera for Surveys
(ACS) in the Hubble Space Telescope. This
marked perhaps the most significant scientific
upgrade of Hubble's life. The astronauts
stepped inside Hubble through the starboard
side of the axial bay. Here they removed
the Faint Object Camera (FOC) to make room
for ACS. Images roughly
in chronological order.
Mar
7 - Flight Day 7 (EVA4) :: Farewell FOC
The Faint Object Camera (FOC) was the last
of Hubble's original instruments. The spacewalkers
removed the instrument from the axial bay
and gently placed it into the second axial
carrier in Columbia's bay.