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One of the Astronauts repairing the Hubble Space Telescope' was a Devils Lake climber,

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By Alex A
From Bailey, CO
May 15, 2009
4th pitch Rewritten

John M. Grunsfeld, was a active climber in the 80's, before he was accepted in the astronaut training program, he said, all his years of climbing, prepared him for space missions, John was a member of the Chicago Mountaineering Club, on one of his 5 missions, he brought a CMC club t shirt in to space, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hs>>>>>


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By Bob Packwood
From Longtucky, CO
May 15, 2009

Sweet! Go NASA! Go John Grunsfeld!

Hoping for their safe return and a successful mission.


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By Mark Nelson
May 18, 2009
Ice Passion<br /><br /><br />(Stuart Paul snapped this of me getting after it in Ouray)

It is reported that: "he can lead 5.9 on earth, but is competent at 5.15 in zero-gravity."


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By George Bell
From Boulder, CO
May 18, 2009
Hip trouble ...

Competent? In zero-G he can likely float 5.15's. Nay, he's probably already put up 5.25's!


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By Evan Simons
From Boulder CO
May 18, 2009
Sled patrol at Wolf Creek Pass

Once they terraform Mars, there's gonna be some sick ass climbing in 2/3-G.


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By Bob Packwood
From Longtucky, CO
May 18, 2009

If you want to see some really entertaining shit and don't want to work, check out the live feed (right now!) from the last spacewalk of the mission:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Fascinating, inspiring...the ol' USA is still good for some great things!


PS- It's Grunsfeld doing the EVA right now.


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By Alex A
From Bailey, CO
May 19, 2009
4th pitch Rewritten

John at work, WOW, and they get paid to do this, John installing the Wide field camera http://www.youtube.com/profile?v=3R2iHEVOBHA&user=NASAtelevi>>>>>


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By Bob Packwood
From Longtucky, CO
May 21, 2009

The videos from the mission are awesome.

Grunsfeld is gonna be a Colorado resident, he is coming to CU-Boulder...

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/may/20/hubble-astronaut>>>>>


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