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NASA announces new Servicing Mission to HST

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FYI…

- http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/s…cing/index.html
October 31, 2006
"Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) is the final planned servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronauts will use the Space Shuttle to bring new instruments to Hubble along with gyros, batteries and other devices crucial for the telescope’s continued success through the year 2013. At the end of SM4, Hubble will be at the peak of its capabilities…"

- http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/10/31/h…e.ap/index.html
October 31, 2006
"…"We are going to add a shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope to the shuttle's manifest to be flown before it retires," Griffin told workers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland on Tuesday. The mission will prolong the life of an instrument that has captured some of the most spectacular images of the universe… A rehab mission would keep Hubble working until about 2013. It would add two new camera instruments, upgrade aging batteries and stabilizing equipment, add new guidance sensors and repair a light-separating spectrograph…"

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Post #2
More…

- http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/oct/H…nouncement.html
Oct. 31, 2006
"…The flight is tentatively targeted for launch during the spring to fall of 2008. Mission planners are working to determine the best location and vehicle in the manifest to support the needs of Hubble while minimizing impact to International Space Station assembly. The planners are investigating the best way to support a launch on need mission for the Hubble flight. The present option will keep Launch Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., available for such a rescue flight should it be necessary. Griffin also announced the astronauts selected for the mission. Veteran astronaut Scott D. Altman will command the final space shuttle mission to Hubble. Navy Reserve Capt. Gregory C. Johnson will serve as pilot. Mission specialists include veteran spacewalkers John M. Grunsfeld and Michael J. Massimino and first-time space fliers Andrew J. Feustel, Michael T. Good and K. Megan McArthur…"

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