Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to rise off Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center Wednesday, carrying a load that cannot be weighed with conventional scales. When the seven astronauts ride the ...

John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle, which delivered Hubble to space 35 years ago, and it's no secret why ...

The optical cabin's field of view will be 300 times as large as that of the Hubble and it will be connected with a soon to be launched space station. China plans to launch an independent optical ...

For example, NASA officials noted that Dragon's thruster exhaust could potentially contaminate Hubble's supersensitive optics. But the agency's decision was not a permanent, blanket "no." NASA ...

NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled ...

two teams of astronauts completed the first servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. A key aim of this first servicing mission was to install corrective optics to compensate for the telescope’s ...

"Knock on wood, it can go another 10 years," former astronaut John Grunsfeld says. John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA ...

two teams of astronauts completed the first servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. A key aim of this first servicing mission was to install corrective optics to compensate for the telescope’s ...