Hubble telescope mission, Nasa's most dangerous endeavour, is ready for launch


	Hubble telescope mission, Nasa's most dangerous endeavour, is ready for launch
infidel70
5-11-2009 11:07 AM
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5-11-2009 11:31 AM
tanyamm
Saw some of this on the news this morning.
5-11-2009 12:29 PM
ColoradoRight
God speed and a safe return.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1f51990a-c59d-48fb-ba9a-f63ecf34f325/BF780892-CA9F-4706-BB05-6FF7183BDDAB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html">Nasa is set to dispatch seven astronauts on its most dangerous ever shuttle mission as it attempts to rescue the $7 billion Hubble Space Telescope from meltdown.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html"><P><FONT>Led by former US Navy fighter pilot Scott Altman, 49, a one-time stunt flier for actor Tom Cruise in the film Top Gun, the crew of Atlantis will repair and upgrade the orbiting observatory, risking a potentially deadly space-junk collision that could leave them stranded 350 miles above Earth.</FONT></P><DIV class="clear"> </DIV>
<IMG width="634" height="381" class="blkBorder" alt="Hubble mission: shuttle Atlantis ready for takeoff" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/11/article-1180135-04E3154A000005DC-4_634x381.jpg" /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html"><IMG width="634" height="457" class="blkBorder" alt="Hubble crew" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/11/article-1180135-04E39C40000005DC-682_634x457.jpg" />
<P class="imageCaption">The Hubble crew</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html"><IMG width="634" height="707" class="blkBorder" alt="Hubble space telescope mission" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/11/article-1180135-04E413AE000005DC-447_634x707.jpg" />
<P><FONT>Should a rescue become necessary, it would provide the greatest space drama since the abortive Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, say Nasa insiders, when three astronauts limped their crippled spacecraft home just hours from death, following an on-board explosion.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html">Shuttle
flights usually only go to the International Space Station no more than
250 miles up - but at 350 miles, where Hubble flies, the hazards are
far greater. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html">If Atlantis suffers damage, the crew  would be marooned.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html"><IMG width="634" height="425" class="blkBorder" alt="Hubble crew" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/11/article-1180135-04E39C83000005DC-381_634x425.jpg" />
<P class="imageCaption">Hubble crew in training</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html"><P><FONT>.'</FONT></P><DIV class="clear"> </DIV>
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Astronomers believe M64 absorbed another galaxy." src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/8HubbleBirthday_94x104.jpg" id="R_C_P_img_8" />	</A>	</LI>	</UL>	</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">	<UL>	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">	<A rel="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/4HubbleBirthday_304x337.jpg| nofollow" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/4HubbleBirthday_600x600.jpg" class="pagelinks bdrw linkro-bdrcc">	<IMG width="94" height="104" title="Hubble" alt="Astronauts are due to visit Hubble for the final time next month. Here F. Story Musgrave is anchored on the Space Shuttle Endeavor's robotic arm, during Hubble's first servicing mission in 1993. 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The nebula NGC 2818 will disperse into space, leaving behind only the star's hot, dense core, known as a white dwarf." src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/3HubbleBirthday_94x104.jpg" id="R_C_P_img_5" />	</A>	</LI>	</UL>	</LI>	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">	<UL>	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">	<A rel="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/5HubbleBirthday_304X337.jpg| nofollow" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/5HubbleBirthday_600x600.jpg" class="pagelinks bdrw linkro-bdrcc">	<IMG width="94" height="104" title="Uranus" alt="Hubble took pictures of all the solar system's planets apart from Mercury and Earth. In this 2003 image of Uranus both the rings and moons are visible" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/5HubbleBirthday_94x104.jpg" id="R_C_P_img_6" />	</A>	</LI>	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">	<A rel="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/7HubbleBirthday_304x337.jpg| nofollow" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/7HubbleBirthday_600x600.jpg" class="pagelinks bdrw linkro-bdrcc">	<IMG width="94" height="104" title="MACS J0717" alt="This composite image from 2009 shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717. Four separate galaxy clusters have been involved in a collision - the first time such a phenomenon has been documented." src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/7HubbleBirthday_94x104.jpg" id="R_C_P_img_7" />	</A>	</LI>	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">	<A rel="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/8HubbleBirthday_304x337.jpg| nofollow" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/8HubbleBirthday_600x600.jpg" class="pagelinks bdrw linkro-bdrcc">	<IMG width="94" height="104" title="dust" alt="2001: A swirling dust band around the nucleus of the 'Black Eye Galaxy' M64, roughly 17 million light-years from Earth. The inner dust is travelling in the opposite direction to the outer region. Astronomers believe M64 absorbed another galaxy." src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04_04/8HubbleBirthday_94x104.jpg" id="R_C_P_img_8" /></A></LI></UL></LI></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1180135/Hubble-telescope-mission-Nasas-dangerous-endeavour-ready-launch.html">Happy Birthday Hubble!</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BF780892-CA9F-4706-BB05-6FF7183BDDAB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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