Shuttle Atlantis Launches on a Final Mission to Upgrade Hubble

05/12/2009 01:19AM

Shuttle Atlantis Launches on a Final Mission to Upgrade Hubble

Space shuttle Atlantis with its seven-member crew launched today from Kennedy Space Center on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. The 11-day mission will include five spacewalks to refurbish Hubble with state-of-the-art science instruments designed to improve the telescope's capabilities by up to 70 times while extending its lifetime through at least 2014.


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