Posted by Meat-pizza on December 29, 1999 at 12:34:48:
In Reply to: Speed of Hubble posted by Deborah Beagle on December 28, 1999 at 09:10:07:
> How fast were the astronauts moving while on the Hubble doing repairs.
> Rumors have it that it was 4000 mph. Can you inlighten us?
The astronauts actually move pretty slowly while they repair the telescope, if they moved at 4000 mph they'd have all their tasks done in a couple of seconds!
Jokes aside, I think what you are asking was the relative speed of the shuttle and HST to someone standing on earth, which was about 17,500 mph (or 28,163 kilometer/hr for you metric fanatics). The relative velocity between the astronauts and the shuttle was zero (they were traveling at the same speed and direction), so they have really had no sensation of how fast they were traveling.