Monday, September 1, 2008

The Big Picture Highlights Upcoming Hubble Servicing Mission


We've made it clear on PointNiner before that the Boston Globe's The Big Picture is one of our favorite blogs. Today the site released a post of pictures from NASA highlighting its upcoming Space Shuttle mission, STS-125, that will provide the Hubble telescope with its final servicing. As always, The Big Picture delivered with some superb photography to document the preparations under way with this risky mission. Set to launch next month, the Space Shuttle Atlantis will deliver critical new instruments, batteries and gyroscopes to keep Hubble alive. Click HERE to see all of the sweet shots from The Big Picture's feature on this mission. I also found the video below in the forum on The Big Picture. It's a nice trailer for what NASA will do on STS-125. Enjoy.



Photo: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
[The Big Picture]

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