The month of October, the Hubble Space Telescope repair for the last time (figure)

Keywords: 10 month Hubble telescope last maintenance

NASA announced on 22 February will be on 8 October this year sent astronauts take the shuttle "Atlantis" on the Hubble space telescope for the last time maintenance.

In 1997 the astronauts do Hubble repair mission scenarios (source: SINA technology)

The space telescope's last repair was originally scheduled to start on 28 August, but NASA 22, explained that due to "Atlantis" shuttle external fuel tank and other components of the delivery extension, therefore decided to launch delayed to October 8.

NASA astronaut ride, "Atlantis", God service the Hubble Space Telescope, you must have a space shuttle in Earth-call, in case of emergency immediately launched to rescue. Maintenance tasks extension that NASA has more adequate time to prepare for the rescue of flight.

It is reported that in the event of an emergency, "progressive" shuttle will bear rescue missions. If this occurs, the "progressive", scheduled for 16 October to fly to the international space station will be postponed to November 10.

At present, the "discovery" shuttle has been transported on Florida's Kennedy Space Center launch pad, May 31, launched to the international space station sent to Japan "hope", the main part of the experimental tank.

United States above 3 on active space shuttles will be retired in 2010 all, NASA hopes to complete in the international space station, the capital. It is expected that in the last Repair Hubble Space Telescope, "Atlantis" shuttle will then perform two missions.