Astronaut C. Michael Foale, mission specialist, wearing an underwater-adapted training version of the Shuttle extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), prepares to go below the water in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL). Foale and other astronauts assigned to STS-103 space walk duty are in training for EVA chores they will handle when they make the third servicing visit to the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST) since its deployment in April 1990.
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Astronaut C. Michael Foale, mission specialist, wearing an underwater-adapted training version of the Shuttle extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), prepares to go below the water in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL). Foale and other astronauts assigned to STS-103 space walk duty are in training for EVA chores they will handle when they make the third servicing visit to the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST) since its deployment in April 1990.