{"id":808,"date":"2009-05-15T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/scary-stuck-bolt-on-hubble-space-telescope\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:12:26","slug":"scary-stuck-bolt-on-hubble-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/scary-stuck-bolt-on-hubble-space-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary Stuck Bolt on Hubble Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjNIta6ima2hZ1_eyRSyj-ySkYBzgHvThad2rSTN7bVy9fSweqEIIE4xRiVNbRK-Y4eTeJrOXGC9BIa25WJXLI1FtCwkk3KuybRpNC3qgjdZ6-cdkJD3XQLnba1bTxLKHbIA-1_OWblXDs\/s1600-h\/345874main_evapic425x279.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/345874main_evapic425x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335905581925820930\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>They had a scary moment during yesterday&#8217;s space walk. They were trying to get the old camera out. One of the bolts wouldn&#8217;t turn. It has been in space for 16 years They kept adding more torque, and they knew they were approaching the point at which the bolt would break, preventing &#8212; forever &#8212; the replacement of the camera. In what looked like their last attempt, the got it turning. Bravo! The live coverage via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/index.html\">NASA&#8217;s online TV<\/a> is really superb. They are using helmet-cams, and you get to see just what they see. <\/p>\n<p>NASA put together a video on the personal stories of the crew members. I think it is a good thing to show kids (Billy has already seen it, Maria is next): <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lPFOXskSd2A&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lPFOXskSd2A&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They had a scary moment during yesterday&#8217;s space walk. They were trying to get the old camera out. One of the bolts wouldn&#8217;t turn. It has been in space for 16 years They kept adding more torque, and they knew they were approaching the point at which the bolt would break, preventing &#8212; forever &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/scary-stuck-bolt-on-hubble-space-telescope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scary Stuck Bolt on Hubble Space Telescope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}