The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope and Where We Go ...

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On August 11th, 2008 the Hubble Telescope hit the 100,000 orbit mark! Since its launch in April of 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope has been traveling at 5 miles per second with its on-board odometer racking up around 2.72 BILLION miles! That's about 5,700 trips to the moon and back! In October of this year the STS-125 crew will be be working on the 5th and final servicing mission to Hubble. There are currently 5 spacewalks scheduled for Atlantis where astronauts will install new equipment and repair broken instruments. Once this mission is complete, NASA's favorite telescope will need to live out the remainder of its days alone in space, with no chance of repair. This is the story of the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST.

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  • naraicks; In the ...

    naraicks; In the ocean.

    By levinceh [Affiliate User] 1219070009 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • wait where would ...

    wait where would the hubble land???

    By naraicks [Affiliate User] 1219065794 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • inthefade; "with ...

    inthefade; "with hubble, rationing and sharing access is difficult, because so many different astronomers want to have access.
    Having double the access would be great.
    I'm sure it makes sense to ditch hubble, but it's sad."

    Good point, thought i read or heard somewhere that it was pretty much used all day.
    We'll see what happens to Hubble in the future, NASA has with no doubt the money to keep it running for years to come, yet is it really worth it.

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  • FAKE!

    FAKE!

    By YooTubeIsFAKE [Affiliate User] 1219044986 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • There is always the ...

    There is always the chance that an outside source will fund it and keep it going, or NASA will decide that it is worth the money and keep it going. We'll have a special on the Webb telescope soon so you can see why it is cooler though :)

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  • Same way you dock ...

    Same way you dock with an International Space Station traveling at 17,500 MPH...

    Well, a little different, actually ;)

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  • LOLOLOLOL

    LOLOLOLOL

    By spacevidcast [Affiliate User] 1219042478 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • The hubble never ...

    The hubble never went anywhere. Every thing else just moved around it ;-)

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  • yea u gotta be ...

    yea u gotta be traveling at five miles per second and you wudnt kno cuz space is so vast and large that an objest like the earth sun or moon wud be to far away to immediately register that you were moving that fast . i wonder how much the new telescope costs

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  • When you're in the ...

    When you're in the vacuum of space and you hop out of your vehicle that is traveling at 5 miles per second, there is nothing to decelerate you. They probable don't even notice how fast they are traveling.

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  • yes

    yes

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  • You travel at 5 ...

    You travel at 5 miles per sec.

    By YawnGod [Affiliate User] 1219032927 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • so...how do you fix ...

    so...how do you fix a telescope that travels at 5 miles per sec?

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  • hubble was designed ...

    hubble was designed to be serviced by the shuttle so their futures are inextricably linked. its a good thing its being replaced with a different yet overall more capable system

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  • with hubble, ...

    with hubble, rationing and sharing access is difficult, because so many different astronomers want to have access.

    Having double the access would be great.

    I'm sure it makes sense to ditch hubble, but it's sad.

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