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Final Repair Mission To Extend Hubble's Life
necro81 writes "The NYTimes has an in-depth piece describing an upcoming shuttle mission, scheduled for next August, to make a final service call to the Hubble Space Telescope. After the Columbia accident and the scheduled shuttle decommission in 2010, additional service trips to the telescope were off the table. The resulting hue and cry from scientists, legislators, and the public forced NASA to reconsider. Next August, if all goes well, Atlantis will grab Hubble, replace its aging gyros, attempt to revive the Advanced Camera for Surveys, and install a new camera and spectrograph. The telescope could then continue doing science well into the next decade."
I'm doing Science and I'm still alive!
I wonder if those are lamb or beef gyros...
(Yes I know it is bad.)
"They said I probly shouldn't fly with just one eye," "I am Bender. Please insert girder."
NASA is currently working on Zero-G stable frosting in order to stock Hubble with enough cake to do years worth of science.
NASA will try to get as much positive spin out of Hubble as it can :-)
: "If that wasn't the mother ship, what the hell did we just blow up?"
: "The hubble telescope."
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
What does "devian" mean?
Fact: NASA faked the Hubble's launch into orbit. Actually, Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked it up there, and it's afraid to come back down.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
I bet like all repairmen they'll charge ridiculously large travel expenses.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
I'm doing science and I'm still alive.
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive.
Still alive.
everyday is another shooter.