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Hubble Servicing Mission #4
Stu
post Jun 13 2008, 06:47 AM
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You HAVE to go look at this new video... the hairs on your neck will literally stand up.


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post Jul 14 2008, 06:13 AM
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How about just the mirror? I know, I know, there's no way an EVA could remove the mirror from the telescope. What about a bottom first re-entry that uses the electronics etc. to "heat shield" the mirror? There's got to be several thousand pounds of "stuff" (http://www.base24.com/hubble.htm) between the mirror and the bottom, along with enough structural integrity to survive a launch. Plus, the design should cause it to "weathervane" with the heavy side forwards anyways.

So maybe it's not a question of can it survive, but would anyone go through the trouble of looking for it and recovering it. The Kansas Cosmosphere did, after all, recover Liberty Bell 7, and the Hubble is much fresher in the public's mind.


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- Stu   Hubble Servicing Mission #4   Jun 13 2008, 06:47 AM
- - ilbasso   QUOTE (Stu @ Jun 13 2008, 01:47 AM) You H...   Jun 13 2008, 02:15 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   Wow! Thanks for that Stu.   Jun 13 2008, 02:53 PM
- - jmjawors   How strange. Doesn't work for me either. ...   Jun 13 2008, 03:18 PM
|- - ugordan   Interesting. At work, I could access the page hold...   Jun 13 2008, 03:36 PM
- - ilbasso   Found it! Of course, it was on YouTube here. ...   Jun 24 2008, 12:51 AM
|- - brellis   That music was cool, too.   Jun 24 2008, 02:48 AM
- - David   Thanks! That was fun to watch. I suspect tha...   Jun 26 2008, 02:50 AM
- - ilbasso   Well said! You don't have a feel for what...   Jun 26 2008, 03:16 PM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (ilbasso @ Jun 26 2008, 07:16 AM) W...   Jun 26 2008, 03:57 PM
|- - lyford   QUOTE (ilbasso @ Jun 26 2008, 08:16 AM) T...   Jun 26 2008, 04:09 PM
- - ilbasso   Conjures up visions of the capsule-eating rocket i...   Jun 26 2008, 04:21 PM
- - dvandorn   Well.. at one point, someone did conclude that, wi...   Jun 26 2008, 04:26 PM
- - ilbasso   I think something like that is on the potential Sh...   Jun 26 2008, 05:53 PM
- - jmjawors   There's talk of installing at least one PDGF o...   Jun 26 2008, 06:46 PM
- - PhilCo126   Saving Hubble ... some enthusiast believe NASA mig...   Jul 13 2008, 12:29 PM
- - dvandorn   The original plan was to bring Hubble back, actual...   Jul 13 2008, 04:44 PM
- - jmjawors   I *believe* the docking adapter is being removed f...   Jul 13 2008, 07:29 PM
- - hendric   How about just the mirror? I know, I know, there...   Jul 14 2008, 06:13 AM
- - jmjawors   I doubt any part of Hubble will survive re-entry. ...   Jul 14 2008, 06:33 AM
|- - hendric   QUOTE (jmjawors @ Jul 14 2008, 12:33 AM) ...   Jul 14 2008, 07:34 AM
- - djellison   The mirror will survive, but that's about it. ...   Jul 14 2008, 07:22 AM
- - jmjawors   Wow, I'm surprised to learn that. That's ...   Jul 14 2008, 02:55 PM
- - PhilCo126   Can't wait to see the mission getting started:...   Aug 6 2008, 03:52 PM
- - PhilCo126   Here’s a superb artist’ impression of the HST: htt...   Aug 7 2008, 08:04 PM
- - PhilCo126   Just read some interesting statistics on micro-met...   Aug 23 2008, 10:07 AM


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