Thursday, 19 November 2009

NASA Provides Hubble Hardware To Smithsonian

Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May.Astronauts brought back the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, or WFPC-2, and the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, or COSTAR, after more than 15 years in space.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1787877/nasa_provides_hubble_hardware_to_smithsonian/index.html?source=r_space

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