STS-125 Shuttle Mission: Hubble Servicing Mission 4 - Page 23

NEOWatcher · #**661** (**permalink**) 13-October-2009, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by 01101001

PBS: Hubble's Amazing Rescue (episode site)

Premieres October 13.

Followed by 400 Years of the Telescope (at least in my market)

bebe7 · #**662** (**permalink**) 15-October-2009, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by NEOWatcher

Followed by 400 Years of the Telescope (at least in my market)

Yes, quite the interesting shows back to back.
I always knew the NBL could not replicate true EVAs.
The STS burns 11K pounds of propellant per second at lift off, quite powerful, although I believe the Saturn V has it beat though. Then again we can look at the Sun which burns 600M tons of hydrogen per second to maintain its luminosity.

Extravoice · #**663** (**permalink**) 16-October-2009, 12:37 AM

I'd like to commend NOVA for putting a human face on the astronauts and the ground team. Instead of portraying them as infallible superheroes, they were shown as bright, hard-working people overcoming super problems.

PS: Add Mike Massimino to the list of people that like to buy a beer for, and chat with for a while.

ToSeek · #**664** (**permalink**) 16-October-2009, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Extravoice

I'd like to commend NOVA for putting a human face on the astronauts and the ground team. Instead of portraying them as infallible superheroes, they were shown as bright, hard-working people overcoming super problems.

PS: Add Mike Massimino to the list of people that like to buy a beer for, and chat with for a while.

They could have been a little less frantic with some of their editing, but overall an excellent episode that did a good job of spreading credit where credit was due: not just the astronauts but the whole support team.

ToSeek · #**665** (**permalink**) 17-October-2009, 11:06 PM

Went to a seminar by Mario Livio at the Smithsonian today. He revealed a "super-duper" deep field image completed about three weeks ago with the WFC3's infrared imager that showed galaxies back to about Z=8.0. He says he expects them to get to Z=10 over the next year.

ToSeek · #**666** (**permalink**) 19-November-2009, 02:29 PM

WFPC-2 and COSTAR now on display at the Smithsonian

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A high-tech camera the size of a baby grand piano is now on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, drawing admiring looks from scientists and historians who relish the chance to get an up-close look at the instrument that turned the Hubble Space Telescope from a laughingstock to a technological triumph.
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The Smithsonian is also showcasing another Hubble instrument brought back by the astronauts, the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR). This package of corrective optics is the size of a phone booth and was designed to send correctly focused light into Hubble's spectrographs, instruments that let scientists figure out the chemical makeup of stars and other celestial objects.

KaiYeves · #**667** (**permalink**) Yesterday, 12:50 AM

I really do have to see those the next time I'm in Washington... whenever that is.

bebe7 · #**668** (**permalink**) Yesterday, 12:57 AM

It is amazing how they practice in the NBL for space walks. But apparently and as i thought, nothing could truly replicate Zero G but Zero G itself.

Mike Mussino is a big baseball fan, he bought the home plate from the old Shea Stadium up on STS-125 with him.

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