Good Luck Atlantis and the STS-125 Team
Today the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off for what is being called the last visit to the Hubble Telescope. The original Hubble mission was a huge disaster and a huge embarassment to NASA. The missions that followed, that corrected Hubble and serviced the Telescope are among NASA's greatest achievements. I think the images that come from Hubble are the most amazing and beautiful images ever taken.
The STS-125 Team will install two new instruments, repair two inactive ones and perform the component replacements that will keep the telescope functioning into at least 2014. I am wishing the team good luck, if indeed this is our last visit to Hubble, it would be fantastic to finish on a high note.
We have become a World that takes space flight for granted, very few people probably even knew about this mission. Looking back at just a few Hubble accomplishments such as proving the existence of Black Holes, providing looks at stars and galaxies that we would have never seen, long views of the universe that have allowed us to look back in time and Hubble has even given us a better view of the planets in our own Solar System that it's importance to Science is just amazing.
