The seven visited the Goddard Space Center, which is responsible for the space telescope
In a photo of the expected mission commander, Scott Altman introduces the crew members to the people who run the space telescope.
Seven NASA astronauts arrived on February 12 for 3 days of training at the Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where they got to know the Hubble Space Telescope. The flight to upgrade the telescope is expected at the end of 2008.
The team members spent the mornings training and the afternoons inside the large clean room from Cebu in Goddard. During the three days they received a briefing about the operation of the telescope, the Goddard facilities and the five spacewalks planned for the mission. During the mission, the astronauts will install two new scientific instruments, as well as essential platforms for upgrading the telescope.
They will already do the training in assembling the devices underwater in the special pool at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, in Goddard they are getting experience in operating the tools they will need.
The team selected for the mission will include, in addition to Altman, the pilot Gregory Johnson, as well as a number of astronauts with spacewalk experience - John Grunsfeld and Mike Missimino, and the rookies Andrew Feustel, Michael Good and Megan MacArthur.
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