NASA's STS-103 Hubble Telescope Servicing Mission was launched on 20th December 1999, from the Kennedy Space Centre, with a crew of seven astronauts including ESA astronauts, Jean-Francois Clervoy and Claude Nicollier. The main objects for the mission were to replace Hubble's faulty gyroscopes, and other equipment, such as the computer, a Fine Guidance Sensor, a radio transmitter and a Solid State Recorder. The Hubble Space Telescope is a joint NASA/ESA project.
This video contains rushes of Clervoy's pre-flight simulation training on the operation of the robotic arm, at the Johnson Space Center. The robotic arm is used to capture and release the telescope from the payload bay, in support of EVAs [the spacewalks]. Also included are interviews with Clervoy in French and English.

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