>>OFF: Go! Go Atlantis! (CHEERS)
Underwater mission rehearsals
>>COMMS: 4, 3, 2, 1 and liftoff of space shuttle
Atlantis the final visit to enhance the vision of Hubble,
into the deepest grandeur of our universe!
>>JOHN GRUNSFELD: This is a really tremendous adventure
that we've been on, a very challenging mission, Hubble
isn't just a satellite, it's about humanity's quest for
knowledge. And Arthur C. Clark said, 'the only way of finding
the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the
impossible,' and on this mission we tried some things that many
people said was impossible: fixing STIS, repairing ACS,
achieving all the content that we have in this mission. But
we've achieved that and we wish Hubble the very best.