Today's post is a collection of miscellaneous links from Making Good Mondays that have one thing in common, the Hubble Space Telescope, or HST. The image for this post is one of the top ten Hubble image favorites.
After cautious anticipation by NASA, the Hubble servicing mission in 2008 was canceled. In effect Hubble's bubble broke, because a major piece of HST equipment went out just before the NASA repair mission was to commence. Such an event is understandable because Hubble just had its 19th birthday.
The mission is now actually underway, with the first of five spacewalks to repair and refurbish Hubble to begin shortly. The entire population of "space nuts" like me will be glued to the NASA TV channel. Space related Twitter tweets and Hubble hopes will be at a high level. We are excited because of the possibility of many more years of science coming from the work of the HST repair crew now in orbit.
Astro_Mike, Mission Specialist Mike Massimino, just sent down a Twitter message from orbit this morning "From orbit: Rendezvous and grapple were great, getting ready for our first spacewalk set." It was enough to set off a Kindle buzz and Twitter "terrifics!" He will be one the inside astronauts choreographing today's space walk, and he will be one of the outside actual space walkers tomorrow. The crew of Endeavor is standing by to effect a rescue in the unlikely event that Atlantis could not come back to earth.
You will be amazed by the eye candy for Endeavour and the various other visual links available if you follow some of these links, see Space and savor the images, for example, or if you check out the post with "The bestest list," as well as learn who's reading and why.
NASA and Congress are not yet in sync because of other priorities. President Obama has not appointed a new NASA administrator, again because of higher priorities. But from all I can tell the acting administrator is doing fine and the mission is doing fine. I look forward to several days of "space nut" fun.
Godspeed to the crew.
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