Hubble Mission Opens Shuttle's Last Act

摘要

Almost overlooked in the hoopla over the May 11th launch of the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope has been another piece of gee-whiz space technology that will soon be only a museum exhibit: the space shuttle.rnThere are only nine shuttle missions left, including the one that started when Atlantis blasted off through a thin layer of clouds drifting high above the Kennedy Space Center to the Hubble, to begin a series of space walks in which they replaced, and in some cases repaired on the spot, many of the telescope's scientific instruments.