NASA splits next Hubble mission to replace gyros, save science
NASA managers have decided to mount an early Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope so spacewalking astronauts can replace the telescope's gyroscopes, out of fear that several months of valuable observations will be lost if one of the three gyros still working on Hubble fails. Under a...
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