Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

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 ...

Former Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has posted ... During the mission, the crew conducted a series of five spacewalks to service the Hubble Space Telescope. It was a huge success.

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 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 ...

(CNN)-- NASA's plans to fly a fifth and final space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope have suffered another set-back. Hubble managers say ground testing of a critical ...

ShuttleFest III continues the legacy of the Space Shuttle Era workers. Join astronauts to artists during this celebration of ...

Friday's failure marked the third failure of six total gyros that astronauts installed in 2009 ... it has not had a spacecraft able to service Hubble and replace the gyros. So Hubble's three ...

The unpredictable turn of events that led to the NASA duo being stuck in space is eerily similar to this 2013 sci-fi thriller ...

Praising India's distinctive approach to education and scientific research, Brian Greene, a renowned theoretical physicist, author, emphasised the enthusiasm and ambition of Indian students to make a ...

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?

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...