Astronaut, MechE grad Michael Massimino part of successful Hubble repair mission
Nearly twenty years after it was first released into orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has received one final tuneup thanks to a skilled team of NASA engineers, including telescope repair expert and Mechanical Engineering grad Michael Massimino. The seven-person crew of the Atlantis space shuttle is set to return to earth on Friday after completing a series of delicate adjustments. This is the fifth repair mission overall on the famous telescope, whose deep-space images have captured the public's imagination since it was launched in 1990. The work of this most recent mission, which included five spacewalks over the past week, is expected to extend the lifespan of the Hubble for another five to seven years. Learn more about the Hubble Space Telescope at http://hubble.nasa.gov/
