Remember I posted about getting to touch the handrail that Mike Massimino had to yank off the Hubble?
Justin C. was kind enough to show Sara and I the Hubble hardware again, since she hadn’t seen it, and I wanted pictures!
So this is the handrail.
This video shows how it came off Hubble!
You can see where the screw dinged the metal when it was pulled off!
This is the ACS (Advanced Camera for Surveys) cover plate – it was never meant to come off, so it has 32 tiny screws on it. To remove this, while ensuring that the little screws didn’t fly off everywhere, they had to devise a special plate that clamped on here, and captured the screws. Actually, I believe this is it: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/272800main_ACS_capture_plate_lg.jpg 
And this is an all purpose power tool used on both Hubble and the space station! (And he’s only dressed up because he was at Maryland Day in Annapolis. Normally people just wear jeans. ;-)
It really worked too! And it was really heavy. (Not in space though!)
This is another tool use to capture nuts and screws. It’s also been in space!
Story Musgrave used this on the first servicing mission.
A thing for smoothing – also servicing mission 4!
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A few more doodads on that power tool and it could be in a sci fi movie!