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Wide Field Camera 3 Installed

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2009

John Grunsfeld14 May 2009

Science / Astronomy

Grunsfeld helps replace WFPC2 with Wide Field Camera 3, greatly expanding Hubble's ultraviolet, visible and infrared imaging capability.

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John Grunsfeld

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