This week in 2002, the space shuttle Columbia, mission STS-109, landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center following a successful 10-day mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Over the course of five Extra Vehicular Activities, the crew replaced Hubble’s solar panels and installed the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which took the place of Hubble’s Faint Object Camera, the telescope’s last original instrument. Here, Hubble is in orbit following its release after a week of servicing. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center was responsible for the design, development and construction of the telescope. Hubble was designed with these types of on-orbit servicing missions in mind as a way of extending the telescope’s lifespan. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage. (NASA)