Rescuing the Hubble Space Telescope

Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Ph.D.!NASA Astronaut!

MIT Professor!

RESCUINGHUBBLE

The MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department 2013 Lester D. Gardner Lecture/Symposium

A SYMPOSIUM TO COMMEMORATE

THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF STS-61THE FIRST HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION.

10AM-6PM • MIT BARTOS THEATER, MIT BUILDING E15, 20 AMES STREETNOVEMBER 13, 2013PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:• STS-61 Endeavor crew members AeroAstro Professor Je! Ho!man (EVA), Dick Covey (mission

commander), Ken Bowersox (pilot), Story Musgrave (payload commander, EVA), Tom Akers (EVA).• AeroAstro and Program in Science, Technology, and Society Professor David Mindell• Robert Williams, Space Telescope Institute former director• Frank Ceppolina, Hubble repair project manager• James Crocker, Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement designer• John Trauger, Wide Field and Planetary Camera correction designer• Joseph Rothenberg, former NASA associate administrator for space flight• Ronald She"eld, Lockheed Hubble Space Telescope crew training manager• Kathy Flanagan, Space Telescope Science Institute acting deputy director• John Logsdon, former director of the George Washington Space Policy Institute• Milton Heflin, STS-61 lead flight director

MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics presents “Rescuing Hubble”: a discussion of the STS-61 mission specifics and a look at the future of robotic and human space servicing missions.MORE INFORMATION: AEROASTRO-INFO@MIT.EDU

This event is open to the public.

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“The Pillars of Creation”

Hubble Heritage

http://heritage.stsci.edu/

The Hubble Deep Field

STScI Science Project: Robert Williams. et al. (1997)

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Gravitational Lensing & Dark Matter

Ripples in the Cosmic Background Radiation as measured by the

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe

Composition of the Universe

Dark matter: 23%!

Dark energy: 73%!

The Hubble Space Telescope