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Mission To Hubble
Just in from BEST - our mission this year is to service the Hubble!
Here's a little background info:
1990, April 25 - Discovery deploys the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
1993, December - Endeavour flies 1st service mission.
1997, Februrary - Discovery flies 2nd service mission.
1999, December - Discovery flies 3rd service mission.
2002, March - Columbia flies 4th service mission.
2003, Februrary - Columbia is lost.
2003, March - Hubble's gyroscopes & batteries begin failing.
2003, December - NASA grounds its fleet.
2004, June - NASA announces that no more manned missions will be flown to Hubble & calls for robots to be sent instead.
2005, September - BEST answers the call.
2005, October - BEST service mission 1 - Hubble's 5th service mission - is sucessful.
2005, December - BEST will send its top robots on a final service mission.
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