Space shuttle Columbia launched STS-109 on March 1, with the primary goal of delivering and installing the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Hubble's ACS replaced the aging FOC, adding 10 times ...

but the Columbia space shuttle disaster a year later cast doubt on future servicing missions. After the shuttle returned to flight, only enough space shuttle missions to complete construction of ...

Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech world of outer space, things don’t always go as planned. Over the ...

But Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit, and astronauts did just that during a space shuttle mission in December 1993. They fixed the mirror problem, giving Hubble the far-reaching 20/20 ...

the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 24, 1990. Since it orbits above the Earth, it can capture better cosmic images ...

all 24,000 pounds of the Hubble Space Telescope were tucked away inside the Discovery space shuttle when it launched into space. Thirty-five years later, NASA says Hubble has proven to have ...

Hubble maintenance and legacy Throughout her career, de Groh was fortunate enough to have worked in different capacities on all five of the Space Shuttle Hubble Space Telescope service missions.

Then, due to the loss of Challenger in January 1986 and the ensuing pause of the space shuttle program, Hubble would wait yet another five years before reaching orbit. Hubble was built with a ...

SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

The telescope journeyed into space attached to the space shuttle Discovery. Nicknamed “the People’s Telescope,” Hubble has made over 1.6 million observations of celestial objects since it ...