HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts finished the last of five complex spacewalks to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope on Monday, leaving the 19-year-old instrument at the height of its star-gazing prowess.
Three earlier spacewalks during the shuttle Atlantis' 11-day servicing mission to the bus-sized telescope were beset by frozen bolts and balky equipment that left astronauts cursing and ground controllers scrambling to improvise solutions.
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