Rachel Hobson Wins Big in Hubble Contest

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Our own Rachel Hobson just won first prize in the European Space Agency’s Hubble Pop Culture contest, in the “funniest” category. Her piece took inspiration from one of John Grunsfeld’s spacewalks:

Hubble is amazing and inspirational in its own right, but I really love hearing stories from the people who work on the space telescope. John Grunsfeld is one of my favorite astronauts. He’s a brilliant astronomer, and from interviews I’ve read or seen… he just seems like an all-around fascinating person.

At one point in the Hubble IMAX film, he talks about a particular portion of one of his spacewalks that involved unscrewing more than 100 tiny screws on a part of Hubble.

Now, just take a moment to imagine with me, if you will: Put giant oven mitts on your hands. Now slip a tiny tool between your fingertips. Know that you have more than 100 screws to unscrew on a piece of equipment that is worth millions of dollars and holds great scientific significance. Oh, and don’t forget that you are more than 300 miles above earth on a spaceship that’s traveling at roughly 17, 500 miles per hour.

Here’s where Grunsfeld impresses once again. He talks in the film about how, at this point in his spacewalk, he switches to zen mode. He focuses only on the one screw that he is unscrewing at that very moment. Never how many he’s already undone, never how many he has left.

Just one screw at a time.

Congrats Rachel!

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4 thoughts on “Rachel Hobson Wins Big in Hubble Contest

  1. Collin Cunningham says:

    ha sweetness – congrats Rachel!

  2. Beckysews says:

    Oh Congratulations Rachel!!! I can only imagine your reaction when you found out you had won! I am actually doing a little happy dance inside ;)

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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