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2015 July 5

Karl Whittenburg

Explanation: Operations team member Karl Whittenburg at the New Horizons 18th and final hybernation wake up from Mission Control at the Applied Physics Laboratory.

2015 June 28

Final Pre-encounter Science Team Meeting

Explanation: Dr. Fran Bagenal, a New Horizons Co-Investigator, is an astrophysical planetary scientist from the University of Colorado/Boulder.

2015 June 22

Final Pre-encounter Science Team Meeting

Explanation: The New Horizons science team listening to individual team leader's assesments 44 days before the final encounter on July 14, 2015. The science team met for their final pre-encounter meeting at APL May 28-29 2015.

2015 June 11

Schematics

Explanation: An image from New Horizons' 18th and final hybernation wake up from Mission Control at the Applied Physics Lab (Laurel, MD), December 2014.

The 25 year old Hubble Space Telescope is like that venerable old camera of yours that you just can't get rid of.

Back in 2009, photographer Michael Soluri got the exclusive privilege of documenting the last shuttle mission to service the telescope which gave us our first glimpses of deep space.

Exclusive Photos From a Risky Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope

Gallery: Behind the Scenes Images of the Final Hubble Servicing Mission

Hubble Servicing Mission astronaut training in the water of the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, Texas, February 2009. Credit and copyright: Michael Soluri.

Photographer Michael Soluriwas granted unprecedented access to document the people and events behind the final Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4, STS-125, which launched in 2009. He has published these images in a new book, “Infinite…

Book Review: “Infinite Worlds People & Places of Space Exploration” by Michael Soluri

Infinite Worlds – People & Places of Space Exploration: by Michael Soluri, Foreword by John Glenn. Cover image courtesy of Michael Soluri and Simon & Schuster.

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched from Kennedy Space Center into low Earth orbit. Hubble was the first telescope designed to operate in space, so it was able to avoid interference from Earth’s atmosphere – an…