Tool, Door Positioner, Power Control Unit Trainer
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Object Details
- Summary
- This door positioner is part of the training unit that helped astronauts prepare to remove and replace the Hubble Space Telescope's Power Control Unit (PCU) in orbit. This device propped open the door of the electronics bay where the PCU was located while the astronauts worked from a mobile work station attached to the robotic arm. This task occurred on Space Shuttle mission STS-109 in 2002.
- NASA transferred this training equipment to the Museum after the fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission was completed in 2009.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Inventory Number
- A20120158002
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Tools
- Materials
- Anodized Aluminum, other metals, plastic
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 43.2 x 10.2 x 9.5cm (17 x 4 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20120158002
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9b34fc15f-bc39-48d5-bbda-51a38ea62b3f
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