{"id":405,"date":"2006-10-31T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/405"},"modified":"2006-10-31T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T16:02:08","slug":"the-fifth-hubble-servicing-mission-is-given-the-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/405","title":{"rendered":"The Fifth Hubble Servicing Mission Is Given The &#8216;Go&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My co-workers and I just watched the presentation at Goddard (we got a remote feed into our auditorium) where NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced that he&#8217;d given SM4 (actually the fifth servicing mission) to the Hubble Space Telescope the go-ahead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The main points were that: the shuttle engineers and astronauts had demonstrated they had a workable means of repairing the most likely sorts of damage to the shuttle in-flight, and a second shuttle would be waiting on the launch pad in case it was needed to rescue the first shuttle crew.&nbsp; That last scenario seems at this point to be a remote need, since the kind of damage that caused the breakup on reentry of Columbia can now it seems, be repaired in space.&nbsp; But the added safety factor still makes having that second shuttle ready worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>So (whew!) we&#8217;re good to go.&nbsp; And if the mission is successful, Hubble should be generating good science up to 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My co-workers and I just watched the presentation at Goddard (we got a remote feed into our auditorium) where NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced that he&#8217;d given SM4 (actually the fifth servicing mission) to the Hubble Space Telescope the go-ahead.&nbsp; The main points were that: the shuttle engineers and astronauts had demonstrated they had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}