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Mission Aims to Restore Hubble
GREENBELT—In about two weeks, some 24,000 pounds of what may be the most thoroughly tested and closely inspected hardware on Earth will be packed into custom crates, mounted on flatbed trucks and shipped as "wide load" cargo to Cape Canaveral, Fla.
When it arrives, the one-of-a kind camera and spectrograph, now being stored at the Goddard Space Flight Center, will be inspected once more, loaded onto the space shuttle Atlantis and launched into orbit 350 miles above Earth. There, astronauts will rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope for a long-delayed 11-day servicing mission.
The $900 million effort, scheduled for launch Oct. 8, will be the last of five Hubble servicing missions, and engineers and scientists here have great hopes for the upgrade to one of the world's best-known scientific instruments.
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