Cover Story: Hubble House Call

Mercury, January/February 2001 Table of Contents

Image credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center

Swiss astrophysicist-turned-astronaut Claude Nicollier talks about life on the Space Shuttle and how he and his crewmates saved the Hubble Space Telescope.

by John Alan Cohan

What is it like to walk and work in space? How good is the food aboard the Space Shuttle? What would happen to a spacewalking astronaut if he or she were not wearing a spacesuit? To find out, read this interview in the January/February 2001 issue of Mercury Magazine with Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier, a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. Nicollier, a member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific since 1978, discusses working, walking, eating, and sleeping in space. He also talks about how he and three fellow spacewalkers fixed the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. Nicollier is a former Swiss Air Force pilot and professional astronomer. If you enjoy this interview, you can see Nicollier in person. He will be a special guest speaker at the ASP's 2001 Annual Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota on the weekend of July 13-15.

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