Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final phase of their Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope ... would put the vehicles payload bay‐to‐payload bay providing ...

payload bay, is an option not just for launching the rocket, but also as a way to return to the observatory in space for periodic servicing, just as NASA space shuttle astronauts did with Hubble ...

Hubble and its fellow ... become reality with the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger.

On missions to the international space station, the station itself serves as the emergency backup. A mission to Hubble will put the shuttle in a different orbit, preventing access to the space ...