The astronauts, Michael Massimino and Michael Good, taped the pieces so they would not fly off into space where they could become potentially lethal projectiles whizzing about in orbit.

BBC: Brute force helps Hubble renewal

On Sunday, mission specialists Michael Massimino and Michael Good had to contend with a handrail blocking their access to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), resorting in the end to tearing it off with brute force.

BBC: Shuttle releases repaired Hubble