On January 26, 2007, the Society of Physics Students at Towson University traveled to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for a tour of the Hubble Space Telescope instrument facilities. We were given a very interesting tour by Dr. Randy Kimble, the Instrument Scientist for HST/Wide Field Camera 3
Towson SPS at GSFC
HST clean room at GSFC
HST clean room
HST mechanical simulator
HST electrical systems simulator
mechanical/electrical simulators
Dr. Kimble showing us around
clean room filters, floor to ceiling
Storage for the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
WFC3 storage
Dr. Kimble in front of instrument dock simulator
control room for WFC3 testing
Sound testing room
Sound testing room
JWST microshutter array in the sound test room
thermal vacuum chamber
thermal vac
watching testing for a solar mission
