... the fifth spaceshuttle servicing mission to the telescope based on shuttle safety ... shuttle to Hubble would be too risky, pointing to the report of the Columbia ...
... But with the spaceshuttle set to retire in 2010, Russian Soyuz flights will be the only available astronaut transports. ... NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and will complete final assembly of the vehicle at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...
... Fossum and Garan collaborated on three spacewalks during the STS-124 spaceshuttle mission in June 2008. ... Herschel helps solve mystery of cosmic dust origins . NASA's final spaceshuttle mission begins with Atlantis ' launch . ...
... NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe initially canceled a planned final Hubble servicing mission using the spaceshuttle, but bowed to scientific, political, and public pressure to find some way of keeping the ailing telescope in service. ...
... from the spaceshuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, the $1.5-billion NASA satellite has a sensitivity about 20 times greater than any previous X-ray telescope, allowing astronomers to probe the X-ray universe in as much detail as the Hubble Space Telescope ...
... Later this year, shuttle astronauts will extend the space telescope's operational ... details on the spaceshuttle's final mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope ...
... The rocket, manufactured by Denver-based Lockheed Martin Corp., was the largest used by the Air Force and was capable of boosting payloads similar in size and weight to those launched by NASA's spaceshuttle. ...