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KSC-99pp1038
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A C-5 air cargo plane opens to reveal a shipping container with payload flight hardware for the Third Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission (SM-3A). The hardware will be taken to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility for final testing and integration of payload elements. Mission STS-103 is a "call-up" mission which is being planned due to the need to replace portions of the Hubble's pointing system, the gyros, which have begun to fail.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-99pp1038. NASA/KSC, 1999-08-12. Public domain. ID: KSC-99pp1038.