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Mission to Return JPL-Built Hubble Camera Underway

Space Shuttle Atlantis has lifted on a mission whose goals include extracting and returning the JPL-built Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

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Eagle Nebula Hubble’s Eye on the Universe

JPL's camera aboard Hubble has taken some of the space telescope's most memorable images. The camera will be removed and brought back to Earth during a Hubble servicing mission this month.

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Image taken by JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 Stellar Shots: JPL's Camera on Hubble

JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which will be returned to Earth as part of the next space shuttle servicing mission, scheduled to launch on May 11, 2009, took some of Hubble's most famous views.

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Get in-depth information about Space Shuttle Servicing Mission 4 that will return the camera to Earth.

NASA's Hubble Servicing Mission