This week in 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope was redeployed following five days of service and upgrades. The STS-109 mission performed the fourth servicing of Hubble, replacing solar panels and installing the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which took the place of the Faint Object Camera – the telescope’s last original instrument. Here, the crew took a snapshot of Hubble while still berthed in the cargo bay of space shuttle Columbia. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center had overall responsibility for design, development, and construction of Hubble. Today, Marshall calibrates telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, as well as managing the project offices for the Chandra and the upcoming Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer missions. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s
webpage. (NASA)
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This week in 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope was redeployed following five days of service and upgrades. The STS-109 mission performed the fourth servicing of Hubble, replacing solar panels and installing the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which took the place of the Faint Object Camera – the telescope’s last original instrument. Here, the crew took a snapshot of Hubble while still berthed in the cargo bay of space shuttle Columbia. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center had overall responsibility for design, development, and construction of Hubble. Today, Marshall calibrates telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, as well as managing the project offices for the Chandra and the upcoming Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer missions. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s
webpage. (NASA)
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