[Fitzcarraldo]

Did this shuttle go to the station? If not were any spacewalks performed from it. Seems like the opportunities for close inspection of the exterior in orbit were not available in this mission.

[Dave S]

Did this shuttle go to the station? If not were any spacewalks performed from it. Seems like the opportunities for close inspection of the exterior in orbit were not available in this mission.

I heard that it did NOT go to the space station and that there was no space walk because the long arm that teethers the astronauts was removed to make room for the experiments.

[BlazingArizona]

Did this shuttle go to the station? If not were any spacewalks performed from it. Seems like the opportunities for close inspection of the exterior in orbit were not available in this mission.

This mission was pure science, and was the only Shuttle in the last couple of years that did not go to either the ISS or the Hubble. Hence, no close in-flight inspection of the exterior.