The space shuttle Atlantis, took off Monday at 2 p.m. carrying 22,000 pounds of custom-designed tools, replacement parts and new instruments. It is rushing toward a Wednesday rendezvous with a telescope (Hubble), which happened to be floating about 350 miles directly above Cape Canaveral. If all goes well, in five spacewalks starting Thursday morning, the crew members will revamp and refresh the telescope, which has captivated the public and science community with iconic cosmic images. Then they will say goodbye on behalf of humanity forever. Sometime in the middle of the next decade, the Hubble will run out of juice, and it will eventually be crashed into the ocean.It's been 7 years since the deployment of the Hubble and the astronauts are prepared to find some damages on the telescope and hope they are within the means of repairing.
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