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Preflight Interview: Scott Altman, STS-125 Commander
"We can’t travel 13½ billion light-years, but when Hubble brings that to us, it’s like we’re there."
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Mike Massimino, STS-125 Mission Specialist
"Without Hubble we wouldn't have the information, and without the human spaceflight program going up there to repair it and keep it going and improving it we wouldn't have all the images that Hubble sends us."
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Preflight Interview: John Grunsfeld, STS-125 Mission Specialist
"Any time we have a hard question in astronomy that can be answered in optical astronomy, we turn to Hubble to go and answer that question."
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Preflight Interview: Michael Good, STS-125 Mission Specialist
"[The Hubble Space Telescope] and the discoveries that it’s made in the last 10 years, they’re really rewriting the physics books..."
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Andrew Feustel, STS-125 Mission Specialist
"I think for humankind, not just our nation, it's important for us to continue the exploration that is so natural and innate to us."
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The Woman Who Helped Create NASA
Eilene Galloway helped write the law that brought NASA into being.
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Singh Elected President of International Lidar Organization
Upendra Singh, who has spent decades in developing uses for optical remote sensing technology, has been elected to a six-year term as president and executive officer of the International Coordination-Group on Laser Atmospheric Studies.
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This Month in Exploration - August
Fifty years ago, Dr. Thomas Keith Glennan was sworn in as the first NASA Administrator. Dr. Hugh Dryden was appointed as his deputy administrator. Read more historical facts in This Month in Exploration.
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Communication From Space Inspires Young Minds
Amateur radio on the International Space Station brings technology, science and inspiration into the classroom.
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LARSS Student Goes from Wind Tunnel to Art
She went to see "The Dark Knight" at the IMAX Theater at the Virginia Air and Space Center. Checked out Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker. Christopher Bales' work as Batman. And "the cars," Haley Anderson says. It's Anderson's engineering side meeting her theater side and making peace.