{"id":324,"date":"2009-05-08T18:26:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T22:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-05-11T13:31:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T17:31:39","slug":"the-final-extreme-makeover-for-the-hubble-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/05\/08\/the-final-extreme-makeover-for-the-hubble-space-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"The final extreme makeover for the Hubble Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a scheduled\u00a0May 11\u00a0blast off to the Hubble Space Telescope,\u00a0a seven-person\u00a0maintenance and repair crew on the space shuttle Atlantis\u00a0will spend 11 days\u00a0on a delicate overhaul\u00a0that would make it 90 times more powerful than when it was launched in 1990. This fifth and final fix will extend&#8217;s Hubble&#8217;s life of sending continuous cosmic images to 2014. Astronomy professor <a title=\"John T. Clarke\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbin\/astronomy\/people.php?id=12\" target=\"_blank\">John T. Clarke <\/a>can provide a perspective having worked at NASA on Hubble before it was launched as deptuy project scientist. Later on\u00a0he was part of the science team to build the replacement camera and repair the focus.<\/p>\n<p>Contact John T. Clarke, 617-353-0247, <a href=\"mailto:jclarke@bu.edu\">jclarke@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a scheduled\u00a0May 11\u00a0blast off to the Hubble Space Telescope,\u00a0a seven-person\u00a0maintenance and repair crew on the space shuttle Atlantis\u00a0will spend 11 days\u00a0on a delicate overhaul\u00a0that would make it 90 times more powerful than when it was launched in 1990. This fifth and final fix will extend&#8217;s Hubble&#8217;s life of sending continuous cosmic images to 2014. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[899],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}