Hubbles Facelift
Jul 2 2008, Girish Verma

Scientists are eagerly awaiting a much-needed facelift planned for the world’s favorite space telescope.

This fall NASA astronauts plan to take a final space shuttle trip to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

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