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NASA Revives Main Hubble Telescope Camera

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-can-see-you-again dept.

antikarma writes "NASA engineers successfully activated the Advanced Camera for Surveys at 9:12 a.m. EDT Friday aboard the agency's Hubble Space Telescope. Checkout was completed at 10:20 a.m. EDT with science observations scheduled to resume Sunday, July 2. 'This is the best possible news,' said Ed Ruitberg, deputy associate director for the Astrophysics Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 'We were confident we could work through the camera issue, and now we can get back to doing more incredible science with the camera.'"

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  1. They really had to do this by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because all they could see without that telescope camera was this:

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

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  2. Re:To Science by cheese_wallet · · Score: 3, Funny

    and europeans think americans are arrogant!

  3. Re:To Science by mordors9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gee, so we are complicated ;-) There are still people that think the English are evil because of their conquest of the globe. Anyway, back to the article. I would encourage everyone to check out this month's issue of Scientific American. It has some outstanding photos from Hubble.

  4. Re:To Science by Dasher42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a British man, I love America and I hope the feeling is mutual. I raise this glass to the future of Science and hope you will raise your glass too! To Science!

    At long last, some sign of approval from our parent country after all these long hard years! I'm going to tear up.

    But really, cheers! :)

  5. MST3k by monkaduck · · Score: 3, Funny

    So Mike didn't break the Hubble after all!

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    1. Re:MST3k by EinZweiDrei · · Score: 2, Funny

      Good night, sweet Hubble. And a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.

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  6. 'This is the best possible news,' ...NOT by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Today at 10:20 the Hubble main telescope found a planet of supermodels who want to give us a clean power source and worship us like gods."
    That's the best possible news.

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  7. i-can-see-you-again dept. by glass_window · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should have been from the "can-you-see-me-now dept"

  8. ah, they "activated" it, did they? by misanthrope101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So that's what we're calling it these days. In reality, they flew someone up there to whack the thingamaflotchit on the side a few times, twist the rabbit-ears to a different position, and if all else failed, a swift kick to the side of the cabinet. All of the above were accompanied by a steady stream of verbal abuse and profanity, followed by pleas of "pretty please, damn you, you piece of..." If there is another way that anything has ever gotten fixed, I am unaware of it. But I guess NASA is facing a budget crisis like everyone else (except Haliburton, natch) so they have to tell us that they "activated" it, via high-tech, very smart methodology and stuff. Thanks for the info, rocket guys. Gotcha. What a bunch of dweebs.

  9. Re:To Science by rolfwind · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for your informative post, countries like England scare the shit out of me. Police state indeed, sounds like the whole country is one giant prison.