MISSION NEWS FLASH
Astronauts have successfully completed Servicing Mission 4, the final shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Over the course of five spacewalks, astronauts successfully installed two new instruments, repaired two others, and replaced a number of components essential to the telescope's smooth functioning, such as batteries and insulation. Now the process of testing and adjusting the telescope is under way. Find out what's going on behind the scenes, and learn what to expect from the first new Hubble images, arriving in September.
HubbleSite is the home of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the renowned orbiting telescope whose discoveries have forever altered our knowledge of the universe.