Hubble Archive - Post-Servicing Mission 1

Live at the ROC: Hubble astronauts broadcast live from the Goddard Space Flight Center’s innovative Robotic Operations Center (ROC) as they discuss the history of Hubble servicing and how the future of satellite servicing is being made today. Twenty-five years ago today, a group of astronauts ascended in the space shuttle to accomplish a feat of unprecedented proportions: to fix Hubble, in space, while orbiting Earth at over 17,500 miles per hour. These seven astronauts would be implementing a repair and upgrade hundreds of scientists and engineers conceived, designed and tested on Earth at multiple locations including NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Goddard Space Flight Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.The Hubble we know and love today is the most productive space telescope ever launched. The data it has provided the world has prompted unparalleled discoveries, and it continues, after 28 years of science, to tell us more about our universe every day. Much of this incredible track record can be attributed to Hubble’s remarkable longevity. So, how has Hubble survived for so long, over a decade longer than originally intended?The answer to Hubble’s persistent history of excellence and science lies with a wide and diverse group of dedicated individuals committed to making a telescope designed with the capability to be upgraded and repaired — also known as “servicing” — once it was already in space.To read the full feature about servicing Hubble click HERE.For the latest on Hubble check out @NASAHubble on Twitter and Hubble on Facebook In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s first servicing mission, astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Jeffrey Hoffman tell the story of that successful, groundbreaking mission during a livestream event from Goddard Space Flight Center. A panel of astronauts from the Hubble Space Telescope deployment and servicing missions celebrates 25 years of servicing with a live discussion from Goddard Space Flight Center about the challenges of working on a telescope in space.

This is a recorded interview from Voice of America. In this program, Dr. Fred Whipple discusses sending a telescope above the earth 08:39 - Space Telescope project engineer Jean Olivier09:15 - Space Telescope principal investigator Professor James Westphal13:24 - Space Telescope program scientist Dr. Ed Weiler17:44 - Space Telescope scientist Dr. Margaret Burbidge22:36 - Space Telescope scientist Dr. Brad Smith November 1, 1989 Footage Science World episode 167 from 1990National Archives webpage: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77179472National Archives identifier: 77179472Local Identifier: 517-BBG-37120Creator: Broadcasting Board of Governors. International Broadcasting Bureau.From: Record Group 517: Records of the Broadcasting Board of GovernorsEpisode 167 contains: Hubble Space Telescope, little known syndrome, and striper. B-Roll of Hubble in Cleanroom

STS-31 Mission Highlights Resource TapeLaunch of the Hubble Space Telescope, April 24-29 1990Astronauts: Loren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Bruce McCandless, Steven Hawley, Kathryn Sullivan09:50 - Launch12:27 - Opening bay doors20:40 - Taking telescope out of payload bay24:50 - Deploying the solar arrays26:08 - Deploying the high gain antennas26:56 - Unfurling the first solar array30:16 - EVA preparation31:24 - Unfurling the second solar array32:00 - Second solar array gets stuck34:30 - Disable tension monitoring software to unfurl the solar array36:25 - Go for Hubble release39:07 - Student experiment43:50 - Commands sent to open aperture door45:45 - Thank you to training crew46:40 - Thoughts on historical significance50:09 - Closing bay doors50:58 - Shuttle re-entry and landing54:59 - Astronauts exiting Shuttle

Pre-Servicing Mission 1 Resource ReelHubble Servicing Mission 1 was in December, 1993.00:01 - Neutral Buoyancy Simulator, Marshall Space Flight Center04:00 - Astronaut Training, Johnson Space Center04:06 - Astronaut Training, Precision Air Bearing Floor05:23 - Astronaut Training, Pogo Concept06:00 - Astronaut Training, Virtual Reality07:33 - Astronaut Training, Weightless Environment Training Facility09:24 - Mechanical Testing, Goddard Space Flight Center, COSTAR insertion12:29 - Goddard Space Flight Center, WF/PC II insertion15:51 - Goddard Space Flight Center, Astronaut Training with Tools16:31 - Extra Vehicular Activities Animation, Johnson Space Center16:36 - Johnson Space Center, WF/PC II changeout20:32 - Johnson Space Center, RSU changeout23:44 - Johnson Space Center, COSTAR changeout26:50 - Johnson Space Center, Solar Arrays changeout28:32 - Solar Array VNR, European Space Agency34:36 - COSTAR VNR, Ball Aerospace37:35 - COSTAR Animation, Space Telescope Science Institute38:14 - WF/PC II Animation, Space Telescope Science Institute39:04 - Testing and Verification VNR, NASA Headquarters Shortly after the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed in 1990, the observatory 11 HighlightsHubble Servicing Mission 1December 11-12, 1993Astronauts: Richard Covey, Kenneth Bowersox, Kathryn Thornton, Claude Nicollier, Jeffrey Hoffman, Story Musgrave, Thomas Akers

Digitized tape of the press conference from June 27, 1990 where Ed Weiler and others explain the Hubble Space Telescope A1:11:02 - montage footage of launch, deploy, and science oberservations