Follow STS-125 crew as they service Hubble

William Atkins
Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:25

Science - Space

With a successful launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on May 11, 2009, the seven astronauts of the STS-125 mission will be involved in five complicated and needless-to-say dangerous spacewalks to repair and service the Hubble Space Telescope. Follow the complete mission from several NASA and NASA-related Web sites.


The crew of STS-125 took off from their launch pad on the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 2:01:56 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), 18:01:56 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on May 11, 2009.

Their eleven-day mission is scheduled to end on May 22, 2009 at approximately 11:41 a.m. EDT (1541 UTC) when they set their wheels down on the runway at KSC. But, over the next several days they will be very busy with repairs and servicing jobs to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Scott D. Altman is the commander of the STS-125 mission to Hubble. Retired Navy Capt. Gregory C. Johnson will be the pilot of the space shuttle Atlantis.

Mission specialists for the flight include previous spacewalking astronauts John M. Grunsfeld and Michael J. Massimino and first-time astronauts Andrew J. Feustel, Michael T. Good, and K. Megan McArthur.

NASA Web Site

First on this docket is a mission overview of the mission, which is found on the NASA Web site entitled “Mission Information: STS-125: Final Shuttle Mission to Hubble Space Telescope.”

If you go about halfway down the right side of the Web page, you’ll see “STS-125 Press Kit (PDF 4.8 MB).” This provides you will all the specifics of the mission, including a timeline for the five spacewalks.

Extravehicular Activity #1 (EVA-1), by astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel, occurs on May 14.

Page two continues with info on the EVAs, along with more Web sites for the Hubble mission.