boston.com — The Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch next month (October 8th), carrying new instruments, batteries and gyroscopes to the Hubble Space Telescope. This will be the final servicing mission to Hubble, the 30th flight of the 23-year old Atlantis, and one of the final 10 flights of the Space Shuttle program, which will be retired in 2010.
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superior1Sep 2, 2008
i wanna be a astrunot!!!
h3lxSep 2, 2008
they set the standard for all others to strive to attain.
kevynSep 2, 2008
I thought I skipped to the wrong page of digg for a moment... but no, just a dupe. STOP CLICKING TOTALLY ORIGINAL. ITS f**kING NOT ORIGINAL AND YOU KNOW IT YOU PRICK
acidictadpoleSep 2, 2008
Hmm. Does anyone know what program will be taking the space shuttles place after 2010? They said this is one of the final 10 flights of the space shuttle program, I didn't know they were so close to retiring it. Then again, 2010 is coming up awfully fast.
omessiahoSep 2, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/main/index.html">http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ma ...</a>We are going back to the moon.
hello1024Sep 2, 2008
When it's old tech and not required anymore, you certainly don't want it in L4 or 5 - they will in the future be prime satellite real estate, which you don't want to clutter up with junk. Besides, it would take pretty huge amounts of energy to get it there.
badwithcomputerSep 3, 2008Submitter
dupe check is broken- a bunch of things i submitted recently didn't even get that page pop up that asks "are you sure this isn't one of these stories..." which is extremely rare for me. now i'm seeing most of those are dupes which is irritating for a variety of reasons. sending a bug report to digg now- everyone else should do the same if you notice this.