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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 18 > Balky bolt bedevils Hubble repairs

Balky bolt bedevils Hubble repairs


May 18, 2009

HOUSTON — Spacewalkers’ specially designed tools couldn’t dislodge a balky bolt interfering with repairs Sunday at the Hubble Space Telescope. So they took an approach more familiar to people puttering around down on Earth: brute force.

And it worked. But it set....

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