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Shuttle to make repairs to the Hubble telescope – launch date May 12, 2009. This will be the final time that the shuttle will go to Hubble before the shuttle fleet is retired.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

 

 

The shuttle Discovery launched Hubble in 1990, and released it into an orbit 304 nautical miles above the Earth. Since then it’s circled Earth more than 97,000 times and provided more than 4,000 astronomers access to the stars not possible from inside Earth’s atmosphere. Hubble has helped answer some of science’s key questions and provided images that have awed and inspired the world.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/overview.html

 

 

Learn more about the Hubble telescope:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/

 

Learn even more here:

http://hubblesite.org/

 

Watch the shuttle launch here:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

 

Build a model of the Hubble telescope:

http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hand-held_hubble/

 

More paper models:

http://jleslie48.com/

 

Watch a video about what is in the sky at night and find out when in April you can see12 to18 meteorites (shooting stars) per hour:

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky/april/2009/play

 

Gallery of pictures:

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/