Behind the Scenes for SM4
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Atlantis and Its Crew Land Safely in California
With Commander Scott Altman and Pilot Gregory C. Johnson at the controls, space shuttle Atlantis descended to a smooth landing Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The crew of seven ended their successful 13-day mission to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope when the shuttle touched down at 11:39 a.m. EDT.
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Bad Weather Spoils Another Landing for Atlantis
Reporters and scientists wait at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Saturday for a second STS 125 space shuttle landing attempt, which is scrubbed due to poor weather. Experts explain the preference of landing at KSC over the alternative landing site in California because they want to avoid the expense, risk, and complexity of ferrying the Atlantis orbiter back to KSC atop a 747 aircraft.
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Stormy Weather Delays Shuttle Landing
The crew of space shuttle Atlantis will spend another day in space after bad weather forced NASA officials to cancel Friday's landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Saying Goodbye to Hubble
Hubble engineers bid farewell to Hubble and describe their feelings as Space Shuttle Atlantis releases the space telescope after a successful servicing.
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Astronauts Race Through Final Hubble Repairs
Atlantis' astronauts breezed through the fifth and final spacewalk to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope, adding new batteries, replacing a science instrument, and installing new insulation.
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Persistence Pays Off in Spectrograph Repair
An immovable bolt and a failed power tool were among several stumbling blocks that almost stalled the repair of another Hubble Space Telescope science instrument during Sunday's spacewalk.
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Astronauts Repair Hubble Camera
As Atlantis astronauts ventured outside the space shuttle Saturday, they faced a challenging task: reviving a failed camera on the Hubble Space Telescope that was never designed to be repaired in space.
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Astronauts Overcome Obstacles to Upgrade Hubble
It was a longer-than-expected spacewalk, but Hubble now has six new gyroscopes and three new batteries.
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Relief in the Control Room
Take a peek inside Mission Control during the first spacewalk of Servicing Mission 4. Tension runs high as a single bolt briefly threatens Hubble's future.
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Excitement in the Control Room
Step inside the Mission Control room at Johnson Space Center as scientists and engineers get their first good look at Hubble in seven years.
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Launch Day
See the activity at the press site, watch the crew climb aboard the Astrovan, and watch the launch from the Banana Creek viewing site.
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Excitement Abounds Before Launch
Hubble fans celebrate and the media prepare before the launch.
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 "Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base in Carolina after STS-125, the mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.")
 "Several members of the media sit and stand inside the Press Site at Kennedy Space Center.")
 "Mary Estacion holds an umbrella in the rain at Kennedy Space Center.")
 "Engineers in the Mission Control Center at Johnson Spaceflight Center watch the action on the monitors.")
 "Ben Reed holds a New Outer Blanket Layer, or NOBL.")
 "Controllers study their monitors.")
 "Personnel at Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center.")
 "It was a longer-than-expected spacewalk, but Hubble now has six new gyroscopes and three new batteries.")
 "Tension runs high during the first spacewalk.")
 "Personnel view monitors in the Mission Control Room at Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, TX.")
 "The SM4 crew walk to the Astrovan to go to the launch pad.")
 "Mary Estacion stands near Launch Pad 39A with Atlantis on the pad before launch.")