STS-127/Endeavour
Launch Date: July 11
Launch Time: 7:39 p.m. EDT
Take one space shuttle, seven highly trained astronauts, tons of equipment, and one legendary orbiting telescope and you have the 5.3 million-mile odyssey that was Hubble's final servicing mission.
Tool designers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center had to invent several new instruments for the STS-125 mission.
Engineers spent two years designing and building what is suddenly the most famous treadmill in the world - or above it.
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It takes a week to prep a space shuttle for flight back to Kennedy.
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Space shuttle Endeavour completes a unique move from one launch pad to another.
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Space shuttle Atlantis flew back to Florida on the top of one of NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
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The STS-125 astronauts are home after a successful mission to service and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
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