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This Week in NASA History: Final Hubble Servicing Mission Launches — May 11, 2009

This week in 2009, the fifth and final space shuttle mission to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched.
This week in 2009, the fifth and final space shuttle mission to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched. Space shuttle Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 delivered the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and Wide Field Camera 3 to the revolutionary observatory.

This week in 2009, the fifth and final space shuttle mission to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched. Space shuttle Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 delivered the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and Wide Field Camera 3 to the revolutionary observatory, which was designed, developed and constructed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The NASA History Program documents and preserves NASA’s remarkable history through a variety of products — photos, press kits, press releases, mission transcripts and administrators’ speeches. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the History Program’s Web page.

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