The Hubble Space Telescope continues to operate to this day in part due to the work performed 15 years ago by the crew of STS-125. Dubbed Hubble Servicing Mission 4 (HSM 4), scientists knew this would be their final chance to use the space shuttle to visit and upgrade the orbiting laboratory.
As we look back on the mission, the question remains whether or not Hubble will be visited or repaired again.
One of the jewels in NASA’s crown – the Hubble Space Telescope – is continuing…
The culmination of a 40 plus year enterprise comes today – an endeavor that sought…
A few days after the high-visibility move of Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour to her retirement…
And now Endeavour has the left the building. At the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA…
One year to the day since Atlantis launched on her final mission, the exceptional performance by…
Atlantis is closing in on the end of her Transition and Retirement (T&R) processing, following…
Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery’s almost 30 years of processing at Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Orbiter…
With Kennedy Space Center workers towing Orbiter Atlantis on Thursday “around the corner” of the…
It’s the final time Endeavour will enter an OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility). After a storied…
Atlantis departed her Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2) on Friday, ahead of arriving inside the Vehicle Assembly…
All good things must come to an end. And thus was the grand finale of…
Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis was powered down for the final time on Thursday, following a…
For Atlantis, the last decade of her career would be marked with many more triumphs…
With Atlantis’s early years behind her, the middle years of OV-104’s impressive career would serve…
The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis, in many ways the middle-child orbiter of the Space Shuttle…
With Discovery safely back on the ground after becoming the first orbiter to successfully complete…
And so to the end. With a flawless countdown and a launch into a clear…
United Space Alliance engineers are working a tentative plan to de-stack Atlantis, pending official confirmation…
Space shuttle Endeavour has been escorted on a mini tour of the Kennedy Space Center…
