Panel Questions Hubble Mission
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A leading panel of experts handed NASA&#39;s leadership a sharp reproof today, concluding that the space shuttle should be used to service the Hubble Space Telescope and can do the job without posing unacceptable risks to shuttle astronauts.
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On Tuesday, 50 space experts and advocates are gathering to ask whether the United States is on the right track with its plans for space exploration.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will decide whethe
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Mar. 1--Mid-Columbia astronomers are worried the final management plan for the Hanford Reach National Monument could call for tearing down one of the highest quality telescopes available for public use in the Northwest.
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NASA engineers Monday were examining a problem with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. National Aeronautical and Space Administration officials say the observatory was placed in a protective safe mode at 7:34 a.m.
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The moon has very little atmosphere, and lots of dust. Those are some of the things being considered this week at the home of the Hubble Space Telescope, where astronomers are discussing the opportunities offered by NASA's plan to return to the moon, including the possibility of a telescope on the lunar surface.
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NASA&#39;s plan to send a robot into space to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope is unlikely to succeed, according to a new report from the National Academy of Sciences.
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Description: NASA is considering an unprecedented robotic mission to save the Hubble Space telescope. But a final report from the National Academy of Sciences says the robotic mission probably won&#39;t be ready on time to save the telescope.
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Shuttle astronauts would do a better job of upgrading the ailing Hubble Space Telescope than robots, a panel of space experts has said.
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Is this newly discovered feeble point of light the long-sought bona-fide image of an exoplanet? A research paper by an international team of astronomers provides sound arguments in favor, but the definitive answer is now awaiting further observations.
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NASA's departing chief, Sean O'Keefe, on Friday defended his decision to pursue a robotic repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, days after a panel of scientists said a shuttle mission would be better.
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Shuttle astronauts would do a better job of upgrading NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope than space-faring robots -- with less risk, astronautical experts reported on Wednesday.
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The space shuttle should be used to service the Hubble Space Telescope and can do the job  without posing unacceptable risks to the astronauts, NASA's leadership was told Wednesday.-The Washington Post
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NASA has given the go-ahead to a Canadian firm to work on a possible robot-salvage mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The contract is valued at &#36;154 million and builds on the space robotics work of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd through its MD Robotics group in Brampton, Ontario.
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By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 13--A proposed space telescope program led by a Tucson-based  astronomer is in a three-way race to answer the era's biggest cosmological  question: What is causing the expanding universe to accelerate?   Tod R.
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A panel said that NASA should send astronauts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope rather than rely on a robotic device.
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A report commissioned by NASA says the space agency won't succeed in its plans to send a robot to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. Send humans instead, the report's authors recommend. By Amit Asaravala.