[NormsRevenge]

Hubble Space Telescope is seen with ground view in this picture taken from Space Shuttle in March 2002. A long-delayed and nearly canceled upgrade to the Hubble Space Telescope will have to wait until NASA completes delivery of three modules to the International Space Station, officials said on January, 8, 2008. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

[NormsRevenge]

Mission Info:
STS-125: Final Shuttle Mission to Hubble Space Telescope

[Joe Boucher]

Rix the Hubble with a shuttle mission?
Yeah and that’s going to happen.
Can’t even get the damn things to work even a part of the time.
Great job there N.A.S.A ya dorks.

[truemiester]

This mission is one that was forced on NASA by the public. When the Shuttle returned to flight they were so cautious that there was no mission to the Hubble even though they knew that it would fail. The public (me included) wrote NASA to add it to the schedule.

I am sure my letter had nothing to do with it. The calls to congress did, I am sure.

[samtheman]

The mission that almost didn’t happen. Who turned this around from a no-go to a go? Kudos to him/her.

[RobinOfKingston]

To prepare for the space telescope's eventual demise, spacewalkers will also attach a connecting port that will allow a robotic tug to dock with Hubble.

HAL9000 would have found that unacceptable.

[Ignatz]

"We estimate that at the end of this repair Hubble will be 90 times more powerful than when it was first launched."

When it was first launched the d@mn thing didn't even work, so making it "90 times more powerful" shouldn't be too hard.

[RightWhale]

The new NASA homepage is sort of interesting.