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Not Lost in Space

Not lost in space

Mission Specialist John Grunsfeld is positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Atlantis' remote manipulator system and Andrew Feustel (top center), mission specialist, participate in the STS-125 mission's fifth and final spacewalk servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.

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May 18, 2009

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