This mission laid the groundwork for iconic servicing efforts, including those for the Hubble Space Telescope. On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA's space shuttle program saw its darkest day at the time ...
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 ...
Hubble had six gyroscopes when it launched ... astronauts and to the telescope was too great. Unlike Nasa’s Space Shuttle Atlantis, which was used for the last repair mission, SpaceX’s ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf ...
Lee Feinberg, HWO's principal architect based at Goddard, said in a separate presentation that NASA is currently envisioning a massive space telescope nearly 20 feet (6 meters) wide, and suggested it ...
DOCTOR KEN KRAMER IS THE MANAGING EDITOR OF SPACE UP CLOSE.COM. HE SAYS THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM HAS IMPROVED LIFE HERE ON EARTH. THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE AND THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, JUST TWO ...