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OCR: WORKING IN SPACE LIVING IN SPACE RETRIEVING AND REPAIRING SATELLITES GOTCHA! Astronauts working on board the Space Shuttle Astronauts share a joke after can rendezvous with a satellite in a low orbit, the 1984 retrieval cfthe capture it with the remote manipulator arm, Westar VI satellite. and secure it in the payload bay for subsequent repair. In 1984, Shuttle astronauts recaptured the satellites Westar VI and Palapa B2, returning them to Earth to be fixed. Some American satellites have modules designed for easy replacement in space. A 1993 Shuttle mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope replaced solar panels and fitted corrective mirrors. SPACE TECHNOLOGY SPACE TRAVEL LIVING IN SPACE