For sale : a two - individual control console for the Hubble Space Telescope . bribe it now damage is 75 lofty , and transportation ’s just $ 1,500 . But wait – there ’s more !
Included with the restraint console table is a “ Vehicle Power Interface Console , ” which was originally offered last year by the same seller . Nobody bought it(apparently 75 grand is asking a small much for a one - of - a - form piece of space memorabilia like a Power Interface Console for the HST),so the vender couple it with the console pictured up topand put it back up for sale . They make quite the duo , do n’t you think ?
Via theauction varlet :
Being offer is one of the most important pieces of hardware associated with the Hubble Space Telescope that will ever be offered for public sales agreement .
This is the Vehicle Power Interface ( VPI ) Equipment Rack and 2 Person Control Console for the Hubble Space Telescope .
It was the middle and soulfulness of the HST during it ’s testing phase angle at the Space Telescope Assembly / Verification Facility and the Thermal Vacuum Chamber Facility at the Goddard Flight Center .
The VPI Console provided power to the HST and performed trial to it ’s stamp battery and solar panels as it was undergoing final examination before it ’s planned launch in September of 1986
There are two log of mathematical process record that come with the VPI , chronicling it ’s history from it ’s first first appearance of “ initial power on ” 6/7/84 , through it ’s Validation Test on 6 , June 1986 , to it ’s final entry date of 3/19/90 , just a few week before STS 31 launched on 2025-02-02 to deploy the most noted telescope in world history ! ! !
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