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... panel also described various ways to extract maximum scientific return from the Hubble Space Telescope HST if NASA opted for any of the recommended three scenarios. (NASA, “Panel Identifies Three Options ... January 2009); NASA Space Telescope Transition Plan Review Panel, “Report of the Hubble Space Telescope HST -JWST Transition Panel: Executive Summary” (report, Washington, DC, August 2003), http://www.nasa.gov/audience ...

... -known objects that the Hubble had observed to date. The new images, made with the HST's newest camera, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), were among the largest and sharpest ... atmosphere, which blurs light and causes images to appear fuzzy. Among its many achievements, the HST had helped astronomers calculate the precise age of the universe; helped confirm the existence of ... 05-104, 25 April 2005, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/apr/HQ_05104_HST_anniversary.html (accessed 29 June 2009).) NASA announced the establishment of the Exploration Systems Advisory ...

... until the robotic arm simply locked on. Without its gyroscopes functioning, the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST slowly rotated at one revolution per hour. Therefore, controllers activated backup gyroscopes to eliminate the ... ) per hour with Brown at the controls, Discovery moved closer to the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST until French astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy had removed the 43-foot (13-meter), 25,000 ...

... Air Force Base in California, ending a successful 13-day mission to Hubble Space Telescope HST . Weather conditions had prevented Atlantis from landing at Kennedy Space Center KSC . Astronauts had performed ... Telescope JWST to function without repairs or upgrades. In addition to making Hubble Space Telescope HST repairs, astronauts had performed a commercial drug experiment aimed at finding a vaccine against methicillin ...

... . STS-82 , Feb. 11-21, 1997, was the second Hubble Space Telescope ( Hubble Space Telescope HST ) maintenance mission. During the flight, the crew retrieved and secured the Hubble Space Telescope ... , electronics and scientific instrument telemetry packages. Following completion of upgrades and repairs, Hubble Space Telescope HST was boosted to a higher orbit and redeployed. Expedition-6, Nov. 23, 2002 to May ...

... scientific instruments and upgraded systems on the Hubble Space Telescope ( Hubble Space Telescope HST ). Enhancing Hubble Space Telescope HST scientific capabilities required three spacewalks (EVAs). Grunsfeld performed two spacewalks, totaling 16 hours ... for the infrared camera, new solar arrays and a new power system. Hubble Space Telescope HST servicing and upgrades were accomplished by four crewmembers during a total of five EVAs in ...

... Shuttle Endeavour on Mission STS-61 to repair the Hubble Space Telescope ( HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST ) was scheduled for December 1, 1993. The flight was the first in a series of ... spacewalks with the capability for an additional two if needed. The first HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST servicing mission was to have three primary objectives: restoring the planned scientific capabilities of the ...

... described the long-duration-exposure pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope ( HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST ) as the "best picture we have yet of the early universe," announcing that, approximately 12 ... before. Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute estimated that the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST had captured a view of the universe at only about 10 percent of its present ...

... the refurbished space telescope offered exciting new possibilities. The upgrades to the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST significantly improved the range and precision of the instrument. Scientists reported peering approximately 50 million ... February, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), enabled the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST to capture near-infrared wavelengths, beginning to penetrate the "dusty veil" that had prevented astronomers ...

... ," and, consequently, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute had reprogrammed the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST to search for the nucleus. The exceptional resolution and sensitivity of the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE ... in a disintegrating comet. Some astronomers had suggested that the fragments the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST revealed were the "primordial building blocks of the original nucleus." If so, studying them could ...

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