The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off today on a mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has been mostly blind for the past couple of years, loosing one of the cameras in January 2007 and another in 2008. The astronauts are trying to fix both cameras and put in a new instrument, new gyroscopes and remove some old cameras at the same time. Hopefully they get it all done!
Cosmic Variance has a nice report on the launch. It's amazing to watch the shuttle lift off and know that people are traveling into orbit. I saw Star Trek this weekend (it was good!) and while the everything in the movie is pure fantasy, watching a shuttle launch plants a little irrational thought that maybe someday we'll achieve a tiny piece of what the screenwriters imagined.
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woooo! goooo Atlantis! please fix our poor little Hubble.
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