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- "A typical EVA is six hours, and we practice about sixty or sixty-plus hours in ..."
- "A typical operation for an exchange of a component on board Hubble is to remove ..."
- "As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately ..."
- "ESA contributed from the beginning in the systems of the Hubble Space Telescope, and of ..."
- "For EVA number 2 Mike Foale will be at the end of the arm for ..."
- "From the beginning on the European Space Agency was part of that program; in fact ..."
- "He has total knowledge of what has to be done on this EVA, and he ..."
- "Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was ..."
- "I came here in 1980 to be one of the two European Mission Specialists in ..."
- "I did a number of runs as a scuba diver when they were doing their ..."
- "I didn't think that, as a Swiss, it was possible to do that, although I ..."
- "I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was ..."
- "I flew for the first time in 1992, twelve years after I started training here, ..."
- "I remember on the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission in December '93, this was ..."
- "I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short ..."
- "I was relatively familiar with the EVA task, but I was, of course, quite familiar, ..."
- "I will also be assisting the robotic system operator, on one hand, in the capture ..."
- "I will be assisting Mike Foale during this IV task. We may have unforeseen events. ..."
- "I will help him-Jean-Francois Clervoy-as an RMS operator during the spacewalks of my two other ..."
- "I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is ..."
- "I'm pretty sure, I hope at least, that these gyroscopes that we will exchange will ..."
- "In a way, what we do is not totally different from some of the tasks ..."
- "In fact, Hubble is able to maintain its position in space, or its attitude in ..."
- "In fact, we try to share this position at the end of the arm because ..."
- "In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes ..."
- "In the case of Hubble, beyond the visible part of the [spectrum], which is accessible ..."
- "Initially, the European Space Agency provided the solar arrays, which are responsible for transforming the ..."
- "It blocks a good part of the infrared, also. So you have available the whole ..."
- "It happens that we had failures. The telescope has been in orbit [for] nine years, ..."
- "It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I ..."
- "It was really an era of pioneering in aviation, and very few people were becoming ..."
- "It's called Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, which, by the way, is located at the ..."
- "It's going to be basically a two-person task to do this jointly. This is going ..."
- "It's not only us, it's the whole team getting ready for this mission: the whole ..."
- "Later when I started my first step towards becoming a pilot and an astronomer, I ..."
- "Mike Foale is going to be the so-called IV crewmember, the intravehicular crewmember, and, in ..."
- "My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was ..."
- "My influenced me in the sense that I have the feeling that what I wanted ..."
- "My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the ..."
- "Now, it happened that what we have to exchange on the telescope is normally located ..."
- "On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to ..."
- "Once again, Jean-Francois Clervoy has a lot of talent. He could do it all himself, ..."
- "So it's much more information that you get when you do observations of celestial objects ..."
- "So my two major roles will be, first of all, as an EVA crewmember, and ..."
- "So we have a constant monitoring of planetary surfaces-in particular, Mars-and other planetary surfaces-for instance, ..."
- "So we worked together, but once again Jean-Francois has a lot of talent. I'm very ..."
- "Some of the scientific instruments are axial instruments, but the Fine Guidance Sensors are in ..."
- "Steve Smith and John Grunsfeld will have as a first task the replacement of these ..."
- "The atmosphere, on one hand, blocks a lot of the radiation. It blocks all of ..."
- "The benefit of having all the spectrum available is that you get the information from ..."
- "The computer that is presently on board is a relatively old computer that has limited ..."
- "The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner. "
- "The gyroscopes are part of the guidance control system of the Hubble Space Telescope. There ..."
- "The main purpose of this fourth spacewalk is going to be to install some passive ..."
- "The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth ..."
- "The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars ..."
- "The spectrum of the studies made with Hubble is very wide. We look at relatively ..."
- "Then, it became my new dream, and I'm very fortunate that this dream became reality ..."
- "Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate ..."
- "There's been a lot-and there will be even more so in the future-of cooperative studies ..."
- "They look through the atmosphere, so they suffer from these problems. But they are very ..."
- "This is a great benefit for regular follow-up of what's going on in the atmosphere ..."
- "This is a guide star. We do this for all three Fine Guidance Sensors, and ..."
- "We can do the swap directly at the thermostabilized container in the cargo bay. For ..."
- "We cannot have a telescope that observes the total spectrum of radiation. So we need ..."
- "We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the ..."
- "We got the news at the end of February this year and early March, when ..."
- "We have a certain cleanup task to perform in the cargo bay, which will take ..."
- "We have a full list of so-called "contingency operations" that we'll be ready to jump ..."
- "We have also gyroscopes that are massive gyroscopes that are used as reaction wheels, against ..."
- "We have several types of gyroscopes on board Hubble, including these Rate Sensor Units that ..."
- "We have the Fine Guidance Sensors, one of which we will exchange out of three. ..."
- "We need several elements in order to be able to control the attitude of Hubble. ..."
- "We'll be doing the next activities as far as maintenance and repair on Hubble in ..."
- "Well, a little bit, but Jean-Francois is so talented that I didn't have to bring ..."
- "When Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the moon in the summer of 1969, I ..."
- "When we have smaller components like a data transmitter that will be exchanged on the ..."
- "You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and ..."
- "'You'll have a much better feeling if you have gone up yourself before coming down." ..."
