What & Who: Crew members of the STS-125 space shuttle mission will visit NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Aug. 6. The shuttle Atlantis astronauts’ May mission to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was the fifth and final mission to refurbish Hubble with state-of-the-art science instruments. The mission expanded the telescope’s capabilities and lifetime through at least 2014. Astronauts spent five consecutive days conducting five spacewalks during the 11-day mission. Hubble – launched in 1990 – has helped answer some of science’s key questions about the cosmos and provided images that have awed and inspired the world.
Previous servicing missions to Hubble were conducted in December 1993, February 1997, December 1999 and March 2002.
When & Where: Thursday, Aug. 6 1-2 p.m. CDT – Crew members will provide mission highlights in the Marshall Center’s Morris Auditorium, Building 4200.
12:35-12:50 p.m. – Crew members will be available for a brief question-and-answer session with news media in Building 4200, Press Room 115.
To attend: News media interested in covering the event should contact the Marshall Public & Employee Communications Office at 256-544-0034 no later than 4 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 5. Media must report to the Redstone Arsenal Joint Visitor Control Center at Gate 9, Interstate 565 interchange at Rideout Road/Research Park Boulevard. Vehicles are subject to a security search at the gate. News media will need two photo identifications and proof of car insurance. Visitor parking is available in front of Building 4200 on the southwest side.
For supporting materials for this news release – such as photographs, fact sheets, video and audio files and more – please visit the NASA Marshall Center Newsroom Web site at: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news
For more information about the STS-125 mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts125/main/index.html
