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On April 25, 1990 professional astronomer, NASA astronaut and STS-31 Mission Specialist Steven A. Hawley, was looking intently out of the aft flight deck windows of the space shuttle Discovery orbiting 380 miles (600 km) above the Earth, at the large payload on the end of the robotic arm that he was controlling. To his left was Mission Commander Loren J. Shriver, flying the orbiter. With them on this the 35th mission of the shuttle series were Mission Specialists Bruce McCandless II and Kathryn D. Sullivan, both of whom were on the middeck, preparing for a possible spacewalk if things went wrong with the payload. Floating between decks was Pilot Charles F. Bolden Jr., who was helping both pairs of colleagues. It was a tense time.
I really did not want to mess this up.
Steve Hawley , RMS operator, STS -31
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On STS -37 in April 1991 a FD 3 contingency EVA was completed to deploy the high gain antenna of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , but this was consistent with the flight rules for supporting shuttle EVAs.
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Shayler, D.J., Harland, D.M. (2016). Deployment. In: The Hubble Space Telescope. Springer Praxis Books(). Praxis, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2827-9_1
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