CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, crew members with the STS-125 mission get a close look at some of the equipment associated with their mission to service NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. From left, Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld and Mike Massimino, with the help of a technician, open the Fine Guidance Sensor Scientific Instrument Protective Enclosure, or FSIPE, to look at the Fine Guidance Sensor. The STS-125 crew is taking part in a crew equipment interface test, which provides experience handling tools, equipment and hardware they will use on their mission. Space shuttle Atlantis is targeted to launch on the STS-125 mission Oct. 10. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date September 5, 2008