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Hubble rescue mission gears up despite shuttle setback

Publication date: 06 May 2005

Authors: Washington, T.R.

Journal: Nature
Volume: 435
Page: 4
Year: 2005

Copyright: Nature Publishing Group

The space shuttle Discovery will have to wait at least another seven weeks before returning to duty, NASA decided last week. But preparations for an astronaut servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope will resume anyway - another sign that new NASA administrator Michael Griffin may reverse his predecessor's decision to abandon the telescope later in the decade.

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