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Hubble Astronauts Take Part in Education Event

NASA Education Specialist Tara Clopper (at left with microphone) introduces the STS-125 crew at the Distance Learning Network event. Credit: NASA Hubble astronauts were at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the week of April 28, 2008, practicing hands-on procedures for the last shuttle trip to the famed telescope later this year.

In addition to their daily briefings and hands-on training inside the world’s largest clean room at Goddard, several crew members took part in a virtual education event. Astronauts Altman, Good, Massimino, Feustel, Johnson, and Grunsfeld came to the Goddard TV studio to participate in a NASA Digital Learning Network (DLN) session, which connects students from across the country with educators and other special guests via videoconferencing, where students and NASA presenters can see and hear one another.

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Next Stop: Hubble - Feature Stories Related to Servicing Mission 4


Image above: The Hubble Space Telescope, as seen through a window on space shuttle Discovery, during Servicing Mission 3B in 2002. Credit: NASA

This series will be published monthly through July 2008. It explores topics related to NASA's journey back to the Hubble Space Telescope. These features strive to tell the stories of the team behind Hubble, the telescope itself and the amazing steps it takes in observing our universe's many wonders.

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