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On this day, December 9, 1993, NASA astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman are pictured alongside the Hubble Space Telescope during the fifth and final EVA of the first Hubble servicing mission (STS-61).The west coast of Australia forms the backdrop to the Space Shuttle Endeavour's payload bay, with Eighty Mile Beach to the lower left of Hubble and the distinctive Cape Range National Park jutting out into the Indian Ocean at the upper left of the frame.Considered to be one of the most challenging and complex crewed missions ever attempted, STS-61 saw two teams of astronauts performing a record five spacewalks on consecutive days to service the Hubble Space Telescope three years after its launch.Photo: NASA