The Hubble Science Mission
The upcoming launch on May 11 of Shuttle Atlantis marks the start of the long-awaited final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. After being scrapped following safety concerns in the wake of the Columbia tragedy, then reinstated in 2006 by NASA, this repair flight was scheduled for last September before problems of the space telescope forced a last minute cancellation.
With the mission now possible again, the seven astronauts will, on five spacewalks, fit new science instruments, repair others and service the space telescope so that it can continue operating until at least 2014. Already proud of its achievements, NASA and ESA expect that the Hubble Telescope will be delivering even more valuable insights into the Universe.
This A & B-Roll focuses on the science expectations after this servicing mission with Robert Fosbury, Head of the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility in Munich.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PD

The Hubble repair mission:
towards more ground-breaking science
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The Hubble Space Telescope has had a profound impact on astronomy and astrophysics, and with its spectacular images, on the public at large.
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Hubbleís historic Ultra Deep Field, an eleven-day long exposure, offered a voyage back in time, revealing the Universe as it was 13 billion years ago.
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Robert Fosbury, Head of the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility, Munich
""The thrust now both with Hubble and subsequent missions is to go even further and to pick up the very earliest objects in the Universe that did so much to change the Universeís appearance.""
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With astronauts adding two new instruments and repairing two existing ones, Hubble will be able to pursue this goal and answer many questions in other fields of astronomy.
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The imposing Wide Field Camera-3 with its high-resolution and continuous coverage of wavelengths, or colours of light, from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared, will bring a un