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STS-125: Atlantis Releases Hubble
Hubble is on its own again after five spacewalks and what astronaut John Grunsfeld called "a tour de force of tools and human ingenuity."
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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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STS-125: Atlantis Captures Hubble
Space shuttle Atlantis captures the Hubble Space Telescope during mission STS-125, the final servicing mission to the orbiting observatory.
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Atlantis Crew at Work
Astronaut Mike Massimino takes you on a tour of space shuttle Atlantis as the STS-125 crew works through its first full day in space.
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Atlantis Roars off on Hubble Chase
Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off to catch up to and service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Student of the Stars
A love of astronomy helped one college student set a course for a variety of science internships at JPL.
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