Shuttle Robotics Tests Important to Hubble Mission Approval

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The STS-121 Discovery crew will demonstrate how the new Orbiter Boom Sensor System could be used as a work platform for repair of previously inaccessible areas of the space shuttle's wings and belly. Astronauts Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum will be extended far above and to the side of Discovery on...

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