An astronaut attached to a robotic arm prepares to re-open Hubble's folded-up solar panel "wings. The Earth below takes up most of the background.

Hubble SM3B EVA

During Hubble’s fourth servicing mission (SM 3B), astronaut Richard M. Linnehan, anchored on the end of the Space Shuttle Columbia’s RMS robotic arm, unfolds a solar array. Hubble’s second-generation flexible solar arrays were replaced with a new, rigid, third-generation solar array.

Credits: NASA