Fourth spacewalk today
17 May 2009, 13:32 UTC
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Astronauts Mike Massimino and Mike Good will conduct SM4’s fourth spacewalk today, focusing on the repair of the STIS instrument (Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph). A power supply failure in 2004 rendered the “black hole hunter” inoperable. Watch NASA’s video about the STIS repair.
