Outstanding...(Hubble Telescope life extended)

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NASA announces Hubble repair mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- NASA Administrator Michael Griffin turned astronomers' Halloween into Christmas with the announcement to send astronauts on a final mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

"We are going to add a shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope to the shuttle's manifest to be flown before it retires," Griffin told workers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland on Tuesday.

The mission will prolong the life of an instrument that has captured some of the most spectacular images of the universe.

Way to go Mike, you da man!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/10/31/hubble.ap/index.html