EVA 5 - NICMOS installation

STS109-E-5735 (8 March 2002) --- Astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, STS-109 payload commander, works in tandem with astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, mission specialist, as the two devote their attention to the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) on the giant Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Grunsfeld stands on a foot restraint on the end of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s Remote Manipulator System (RMS). This marked the fifth and final scheduled STS-109 space walk and the mission’s third extravehicular activity (EVA) for the tandem of Grunsfeld and Linnehan. It was completed at 10:06 a.m. CST (1606 GMT), March 8, 2002. The image was recorded with a digital still camera.