Atlantis ready to lift off and Endeavour in the back ready to rescue (Credit: NASA)
Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to liftoff from Kenedy Space Center, Florida on Monday, May 11 to service the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for the last time. Over a course of 11 days, the seven member crew will carry out five spacewalks to install two new instruments, repair two inactive ones and perform the component replacement that will keep the telescope functioning into 2014. Best wishes to the seven brave astronauts who made a conscious decision to risk their lives in order to continue the advancement of science that Hubble has begun. Space shuttle Endeavour has been put on standby mode in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during the Atlantis Mission.
Learn more on the mission in an interactive way, click on Last Mission to Hubble.
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