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“After Hubble’s deployment in 1990, astronomers 
quickly realized there was a problem.”

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The conclusion we've come to from
that is that there is a significant

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spherical aberration
appears to be present in the optics.

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...and that we should be able to fix it
in our insurance program.

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I was not cynical enough yet
to have an item

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that says we put the wrong mirror
in the telescope.

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“Ten nine... And we have a go for main engine start. Five, four...”

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That was not part of my equation.

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And that. That hurt.

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“Liftoff! Liftoff of the Space Shuttle Endeavor
on an ambitious mission servicing

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the Hubble Space Telescope.”

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A spacewalk is an athletic event.

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Okay, I got to fix this thing.

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What are the tools?

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Come up with the tools.

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And what is the motion of the tools?

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And so I look at the tools
and me as a dance like an athletic event,

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and I trained with prime athletes.

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Well, you know, the people at Goddard,
and Cepollina,

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and everyone else
with the right kind of spirit.

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It's just it's teamwork.

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It's teamwork, that's what it is.

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All the components
that we might change out,

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they were designed to be changed
with a spacewalk.

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So that's flexibility,

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that's looking for the future,

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that's designing for failures.

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A perfect spacewalk is one that

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you pull off just as accurate
as an Olympic high jumper,

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here's what you do.

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And so I envision here's the problem,
and I of course,

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do not have the right solution right away
that involves the final motions.

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I'm going to do.

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“Got your right hand.”

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“I have you.”

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“Okay, pull me away.”

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There's no doubt
there's public pressure.

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There's no doubt the results...

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People are waiting to get it fixed.

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And a lot of it should not have happened.

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The mirror flaw was inexcusable,

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but the world is not perfect.

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There is public pressure,

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It's important to people
to get that thing fixed,

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and so that's the consequence.

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You feel the consequences.

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“You have practiced every one 
of these maneuvers, literally hundreds

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of times, and you've gone into those
water tanks to practice it.

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What was different about it
when you were shoving that piano-sized

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camera down to the Hubble yesterday?”

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“We practiced for hundreds
and hundreds of hours.

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We tried to identify every kind of surprise

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we might run into.

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I’ve been running scared, really,
ever since I got assigned to this mission,

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and the key thing was surprise.

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But I think even way beyond that,
I certainly will not relax

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until six weeks or two months

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from now when we see how the solar arrays
perform, we see how the gyros perform,

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we start getting optical images
back from all the instruments and see

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the aberration is corrected.
And only at that time

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Will I kind of relax, and
think that we have got the job done.

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The relationship with the crew was perfect
all the way around.

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It was marvelous.

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We had a great crew.

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We landed the shuttle, Covey’s
coming downstairs.

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I had gone down to the mid-deck.

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He's coming down.

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He looked me in the eyes and said, “Story,

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I am proud of you.”

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Enough to bring me to tears

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“Story, I'm proud of you.”

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That was very nice.

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“And I'm happy to announce today

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that after its launch now in 1990,
some of its earlier disappointments.

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The trouble with Hubble is over.”

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Yeah, that was impressive.

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My first view

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of the repaired telescope.

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But of course, there were moments
earlier than that,

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you know,
when Claude picked it up and let it go.

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And that's my sweetie. And we're leaving,

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we think we got it all done,

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we think she's.

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You know, that was a big moment, too,
when we're leaving.

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There she goes.

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We're leaving.

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But it was Galaxy M100.

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Oh, my God.

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It was an outrageous picture.

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I don't know if it brought 
me to tears or not.

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“Before this flight and during the flight,

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Actually, it's been billed

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as very important for fixing Hubble,
for demonstrating orbital servicing,

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in some sense for showing NASA

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can still do really difficult missions
and do them well.

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To you, what was the most important reason
to go do this mission?”

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“I describe it as NASA had the courage to go for it all

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all, to do absolutely everything on Hubble
that it needed doing.

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They did.

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They had the courage
to go for the whole thing.

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In a nutshell, I think.

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What was it all about?

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It was that NASA 
had the courage to go for it all.”

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It was just a massive part
of my life.

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Incredibly fortunate that 
I got to participate in

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in that machine.

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And I got to be part of it.

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Music Plays

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Hello, Story.

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Wind Sound Effects

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“Servicing Mission 1 had five spacewalks.
Story Musgrave participated in three of them.”

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“Installing the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
and COSTAR gave Hubble a clear view of the cosmos.”

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“Thirty years later, Hubble’s clear view of the cosmos 
continues making discoveries that change 
our understanding of the universe. ”

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“Follow us on social media @NASAHubble