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The story of the Hubble Space Telescope and where we go ...
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On August 11th, 2008 the Hubble Telescope hit the 100,000 orbit mark! Since its launch in April of 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope has been traveling at 5 miles per second with its on-board odometer racking up around 2.72 BILLION miles! That's about 5,700 trips to the moon and back! In October of this year the STS-125 crew will be be working on the 5th and final servicing mission to Hubble. There are currently 5 spacewalks scheduled for Atlantis where astronauts will install new equipment and repair broken instruments. Once this mission is complete, NASA's favorite telescope will need to live out the remainder of its days alone in space, with no chance of repair. This is the story of the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST.
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Well, a little different, actually ;)
Having double the access would be great.
I'm sure it makes sense to ditch hubble, but it's sad."
Good point, thought i read or heard somewhere that it was pretty much used all day.
We'll see what happens to Hubble in the future, NASA has with no doubt the money to keep it running for years to come, yet is it really worth it.
but im glad there replacing it i love space =3
Crazy I know.
Mike broke the hubble!
bet no one recognizes that quote.
*wink*
"Yes, it WILL BURN UP upon re-ENTERING our atmosphere."
"... some of the stages DIDN'T BURN UP because they were ejected BEFORE we were OUTSIDE of the atmosphere."
When will it burn up, outside or inside our atmosphere? Neither? :(
Make sure it's your head and not mine.