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SM3A: Discovery Touchdown at Kennedy Space Center
The orbiter Discovery looks like a blue ghost as it drops from the darkness onto lighted runway 33 at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility. After traveling more than 3, 267,000 miles (about 430 thousand...
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SM3A: EVA
Astronauts Steven L. Smith, and John M. Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide scene photographed during extravehicular activity (EVA).
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SM3A: Hubble captured in Discovery's Cargo Bay
This electronic still camera's view and others in this series showing the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being berthed in Discovery's bay were recorded during and soon after capture.
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The Hubble Space Telescope and the Faint Object Spectrograph
This illustration shows the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in orbit above the Earth as it looked before the Second Servicing Mission in 1997. The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) can be seen (marked...
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Hubble gets revitalised in new servicing mission
Artist's impression of servicing mission 3B, when the Faint Objects Camera (FOC) was removed and replaced with newer and more powerful instruments designed to greatly increase Hubble's discovery...
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FOC being removed from the ESA/NASA Hubble space telescope during Servicing...
The Faint Object Camera (FOC), the last of the original Hubble instruments, is removed during the fourth servicing mission (SM3B) in March 2002. FOC will, at the time of the Space Shuttle's landing on...
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SM3B - a gyro is exchanged
This artist's impression shows a view from above of the exchange of one of Hubble's Gyroscopes during Servicing Mission 3B in 2002.
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SM3B - A trail of smoke marks the path of the Space Shuttle Colombia
Colombia heads into the early morning sky on its way to the Hubble Space Telescope on 1 March 2002 for Servicing Mission 3B.
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SM3B - overview of the installation of ACS
This artist's impression shows an overview of the installation of Hubble's new Advanced Camera for Surveys during Servicing Mission 3B in 2002.
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Artist's view of the Shuttle servicing mission to HST
This artist's impression shows the Space Shuttle during the currently planned Servicing Mission (SM4) to repair and upgrade the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 2008. This Servicing Mission will not...
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Launch date set for fifth Hubble servicing mission
The launch date for the fifth and final Servicing Mission to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been officially set by NASA managers to 10 September 2008. During the 11-day flight, originally...
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System anomalies take Hubble off line
The process of restoring the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to operational status was temporarily put on hold due to a couple of anomalies observed on the spacecraft during reconfiguration. The first...
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New launch date for Servicing Mission
NASA officials announced Thursday that Shuttle mission STS-125 to repair the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is now scheduled for launch on 12 May 2009. The delay to the mission, from the original...
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Atlantis is on its way to Hubble
In a bright, loud and visibly perfect launch, space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at 2:01 p.m. EDT (20:01 CEST). The seven astronauts of STS-125 are headed for their rendezvous...
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Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off
This image of Space Shuttle Atlantis was taken from the press site at Kennedy Space Center. Atlantis launched at 2:01 p.m. EDT (20:01 CEST) on 11 May 2009 with its crew of seven to service the Hubble...
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Space Shuttle Atlantis heads for Hubble
The start of Servicing Mission 4 began with a picture perfect liftoff from Kennedy Space Center.
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SM4: Atlantis Liftoff
White clouds of smoke and steam sandwich space shuttle Atlantis as it roars off Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy space Center in Florida with its crew of seven for a rendezvous with NASA/ESA Hubble...
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Astronauts at work on Hubble
Astronauts Andrew Feustel (partially obscured at top) and John Grunsfeld work to install the new Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on the third spacewalk of...
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