We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology.
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Service of any type requires preparation.
The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.
But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.
This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.
It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.
We have the Fine Guidance Sensors, one of which we will exchange out of three. Another one we changed on the last servicing mission, and on the fourth servicing mission in 2003 or 2004, the third one will be exchanged.
You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.
The 1970s crystallized the service mantra as we now know it.
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
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