Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

NASA launched Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-125, the fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Each shuttle is covered by more than 24,000 of the six- by six-inch blocks. Most of the tiles are made of silica fibers, which are produced from high-grade ... to strikes from space debris.

Then, due to the loss of Challenger in January 1986 and the ensuing pause of the space shuttle program ... Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint ...