Shuttle astronauts perform risky transplant on Hubble

Thursday, March 7, 2002

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Two spacewalking astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a new central power unit in a risky "heart transplant" Wednesday that ended with the patient surging back to life.

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