above Earth and pulled it into Atlantis' cargo bay for service. Watch Atlantis snag the Hubble » It's been seven years since the last space shuttle crew worked on the telescope, which has been ...

Hubble was built to be tuned up in orbit. But it wasn't designed for the major overhaul NASA astronauts undertook ... It was the most challenging service mission ever attempted in space, and ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us ... The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became ...

Jared Isaacman, a wealthy entrepreneur and citizen astronaut, has floated a self-funded maintenance mission to the telescope that could potentially expand the Hubble's lifecycle. The mission ...

Everything is redundant, and the entire assembly is built to support being swapped out by spacewalking astronauts. In fact, the final service call paid to Hubble in 2009 included the replacement ...

Hubble is still in service today. Although in 2021 ... It is the only telescope designed to be maintained in space by astronauts. Five missions have been completed to repair, upgrade and replace ...

Sometime today, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis are scheduled to begin fitting the Hubble telescope with three new gyroscopes. But why does Autoblog care?

Astronaut and "Spaceman" author Mike Massimino has made two trips to space, one of which was spent servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. He's also one of the few astronauts to arrive back on Earth ...

Ohio State announced former NASA administrator, astronaut and U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden Jr. will deliver the university’s spring commencement speech May 4. Bolden — who served for 34 years ...