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Can we go back and get them?
This morning, at precisely 8:57 a.m. ET, a carefully orchestrated maneuver was carried out 350 miles above the Atlantic coastline of Africa, marking the successful end of the fifth and final shuttle servicing mission.
Ever so gently, the Atlantis crew released the grapple fixture on the shuttle’s robotic arm, allowing Hubble to resume orbiting Earth on its own, as it has done since its deployment in April 1990. After Hubble’s thousands of orbits, thousands of images, five tune-ups and countless discoveries, a space shuttle crew is leaving this great observatory for the last time.
I mean, really, it is so sad that one day we will let this puppy burn up and die. (This is the last service mission planned... though so was the last one from memory so who knows.)
It's a pity we could not have boosted it, and Mir, and a few other notable historic craft into some safe, high orbit museum like Nelsons Ship. In terms of understanding of the galaxy, Hubble has blown the frakin' lid right off for almost 20 years now. Such a cool machine!
WOW!
Oh god it blows my mind.
I'm so booking my trip on Virgin Galactic.
Crap! I left my keys in there!
Can we go back and get them?
I'm more thinking about the first few things they said, when they were talking about whether they were going to "reboost" it or not, and that they'd argued about it and decided not to.
I'm sure they more than did the math on that, but they won't have another opportunity to boost it ever again, I'd think they'd give it a little kick just to be sure it won't reenter anytime soon.
If we're smart, we'll pull that thing back out of orbit intact someday and put it in the Air and Space Museum.
Oh wait, those shuttles are considered barely flight worthy as is and will not fly after next year, and those new ships due in 2015, if they come in time, do not have the awesome payload to bring stuff back in from what I understand. I think the shuttle have returned a few nasty radioactive satellites in the past with that cool cargo bay.
Better that it does some more awesome science and go down in flames I suppose than be brought back to earth so my wife can molester it with her acidic fingers like with the stele of Hammurabi.
Every time I watch anything like this, I'm struck by the fact there's less than 200 miles of atmosphere on top of us. In this clip, they are all of 350 miles above sea level. Less than the distance across most states.
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