Atlantis ready to return to Earth

May 22, 2009 by NetCrunch  
Filed under Headline, Space

Atlantis return

Astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis are preparing to return to Earth after an ambitious and risky mission to re-fit the Hubble telescope.

There are two chances to land on Friday: one at 1500 BST (1000 EDT) and a second at 1639 BST (1139 EDT).

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Hubble analyzer fixed, but not without headaches

May 17, 2009 by NetCrunch  
Filed under Headline, Space

hubble repair

On a marathon spacewalk Sunday, two astronauts overcame repeated obstacles to make the second of two historic repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope.

One bolt that had to be extracted proved so stubborn that astronaut Michael Massimino resorted to brute force to rip it out of the telescope.

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