CATS: Crew Aids and Tools
A team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designs and builds the special tools and aids astronauts need when they service the Hubble Space Telescope. Engineers describe working with the astronaut crew and developing tools to meet specific challenges as well as inventing new tools that will help NASA astronauts well into the future.
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- Aerospace
- Airlock
- Astronaut
- Astrophysics
- Atlantis
- Batteries
- Cargo Bay
- Carriers
- CATS
- Cleanroom
- COS
- Crew Aids and Tools
- Edited Feature
- Engineers
- Fastener Capture Plate
- FCP
- Flight Support System
- FSIPE
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- HDTV
- HST
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Justin Cassidy
- Mike Massimino
- Mini-power Tool
- MPT
- MULE
- Narrated
- NBL
- ORUC
- PGT
- Servicing Mission 4
- Shuttle Bay
- SLIC
- SM4
- SMC
- Space Shuttle
- Spacecraft
- Testing
- WFC3
- WSIPE
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Music by Michael McClare
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Video editor
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
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Producer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
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Videographer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
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Writer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 17, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Missions
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[HST: WFPC2]
ID: 655Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) was installed in Dec 1993 and used to obtain high resolution images of astronomical objects. This camera was removed in the last servicing mission so it is no longer in service.
This dataset can be found at: http://www.stsci.edu/hst/wfpc2/wfpc2_diag.html
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