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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
 Posted - 05/16/2009 : 18:25:01
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Just a head's up, so to speak, of the amazing Hubble telescope repair going on now and the next few days. I spent a couple hours today (Saturday) watching NASA live video streams of the action.
Be sure to try Sunday to catch a bit of the live video stream from the
NASA site.
There's some cool "Video on Demand" on the above link.
This URL may be a direct link to Sunday's live video stream.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
385 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2009 : 00:09:08 [Permalink]
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| Very cool. I hope this wasn't the final service mission, but I know it was. No chance of another space agency to buy it out? Well, there are other space observatories on their way, like the JWST, which should be very exciting indeed. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2009 : 07:53:06 [Permalink]
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T should be the last mission on Hubble, indeed.
The telescope is expected to still have 5 to 10 more years of service, though. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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