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Fifth spacewalk energises Hubble

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Astronauts have been conducting the last spacewalk to make repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope, which will never be touched by human hands again.

NASA astronauts John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel made the last of five outings from space shuttle Atlantis. The pair gave the telescope another fresh set of batteries.

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