KSC-08pd2553
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, crew members with the STS-125 mission get a close look at some of the equipment associated with their mission to service NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Getting ready to open the Axial Science Instrument Protective Enclosure, or ASIPE, from the back of the stand are a an HST inspector, a technician, Johnson Space Center EVA Trainers Kristie Hansen and Thomas Gonzales Torres, and Mission Specialist Michael Good. Mission Specialist Mike Massimino is in the foreground at left. The ASIPE contains the Advanced Camera for Surveys. The STS-125 crew is taking part in a crew equipment interface test, which provides experience handling tools, equipment and hardware they will use on their mission. Space shuttle Atlantis is targeted to launch on the STS-125 mission Oct. 10. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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September 5, 2008
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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