NASA extends Hubble contract through 2021
NASA has extended its contract with Lockheed Martin for the operation of the Hubble Space Telescope until June 2021.
This contract is for non-science operations. Science operations are controlled by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
Note that when the last repair mission to Hubble took place in 2009, they expected it to add five years to the telescope’s life. This contract says they now expect it to last at least until 2021, which will also be 31 years after its launch and almost forty years since its actual construction. Not a bad track record when you think about it, especially since its original mission was set at 15 years, ending in 2005.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
NASA has extended its contract with Lockheed Martin for the operation of the Hubble Space Telescope until June 2021.
This contract is for non-science operations. Science operations are controlled by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
Note that when the last repair mission to Hubble took place in 2009, they expected it to add five years to the telescope’s life. This contract says they now expect it to last at least until 2021, which will also be 31 years after its launch and almost forty years since its actual construction. Not a bad track record when you think about it, especially since its original mission was set at 15 years, ending in 2005.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Off-topic: In Florida SpaceX rocket is exploded!
Alex–thanks– just saw that.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37247077
And yet they still can’t wait to deorbit it. It still astounds me how they can dump, how much now?, into the James Webb, a telescope that can’t see the visual spectrum of light and may not work at all, when they could launch a bigger, better and more capable optical telescope. But I’m forgetting the magic word, Pork. Maybe the Chinese will be gracious enough to lease us some time on theirs when they get it flying, along with that new space station, or was that the Russians?
As for SpaceX, all I’ve heard is that there was a fire and that no one was hurt. We need to wait for accurate information. I clicked on Nasa TV to see if they’d be talking about it, but they are covering the spacewalk today.
There’s a live feed on RT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQT3zkBQf8
Statement from SpaceX:
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/771357538738577408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Secondary Explosions at SpaceX Pad
https://youtu.be/Auv1K-ciEWg