NASA HISTORY: Astronauts Newman and Walz Conducted ‘Carribean’ Spacewalk During STS-51 Mission
By NASA information center // November 16, 2024
photo taken on Sept. 16, 199
(NASA) – In the above photo taken on Sept. 16, 1993, NASA astronauts James H. Newman (left), and Carl E. Walz evaluate procedures and gear for an upcoming Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission with the Caribbean Sea and part of the Bahama Islands chain in view.
Newman and Walz’s spacewalk, part of the STS-51 mission, lasted seven hours, five minutes, and 28 seconds.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned as a vital research tool and a public relations boon for astronomy.
The Hubble telescope, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, is one of NASA’s Great Observatories. The Space Telescope Science Institute selects Hubble’s targets and processes the resulting data, while the Goddard Space Flight Center controls the spacecraft.
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