Lift off

[ErosOlmi]

Congrats for today Space Shuttle lift off.

For the first time I followed in real thanks to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22886841#30502733
Really very exciting also following all other info from same web site

Here in Italy we are lucky if the news spend 30 seconds to talk about scientific info. All our tv channels are too much concentrated on entertainment, girls, politics and important things like that. Fortunately there is Internet.

[Lionheart008]

good to see it via internet:) thank you for infos...

atlantis membership will repair and upgrade the hubble telescope, they will also come back safe and healthy, I hope so ! :)

hubble is simply the best and greatest telescope for searching new life or intelligence outer space... there are a lot of very excellent pictures by nasa/esa cooperation and scientic magazines !

my hint: http://hubblesite.org/

info: second picture found by hubble: "NGC 4921, Hair of Berenices (Coma Berenices)", 320 million lightyears from our lovely homeplanet earth !

good night, lionheart

[kryton9]

I just listened to a Radio show last week where they talked about the upcoming mission. They had to develop so many special tools for this mission, something like 150 unique new tools. The reason, the part of the Hubble they are going to service was never designed to be serviced. So it was screwed in with locking solution too, so that it would not come loose over time. This of course is going to be really tough to open and work with in space. They plan 5 spacewalks in 11 days, so that is a really hectic schedule. I hope they can pull this mission off, they sure have their work cut out for them!