"Just before Thanksgiving, my crew and I traveled to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to see some of the equipment that we will be installing into the Hubble Space Telescope."
"Spacewalking is just about the coolest and most rewarding thing an astronaut can do. However it requires a lot of work to get ready to spacewalk, and that’s what we did for the last two weeks of October."
The astronauts of space shuttle Atlantis upgraded NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during STS-125 before releasing the observatory for years more studies of the cosmos.
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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 seven-member crew of STS-125 is welcomed home at a ceremony at Ellington Field in Houston following the final the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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Visit the gallery for the final shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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