As a NASA Astronaut, John Herrington has journeyed into space aboard the Space Shuttle and space walked at the International Space Station. Hubble Live Final Mission he takes the cameras to give you a rare behind the scenes look at the people places and things that have prepared the crew and the Space Shuttle Atlantis for our final voyage to the Hubble Space Telescope. Together we will guide you on a remarkable journey into the heart of NASAs Kennedy Space Center, the home of the Space Shuttle fleet, to the training sessions and simulators at the Johnson Space Center in Houston,
Follows NASA astronauts as they attempt the most dangerous shuttle mission in history. The seven strong crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched with a goal of repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope - mankind’s greatest scientific instrument. However, it was no ordinary spaceflight. They went further and higher than any mission since the moon landings and their work was some of the most technically ambitious ever performed in space. In this fascinating programme, take an all-access ride along with NASA’s finest.
NASA astronauts train vigorously at their neutral buoyancy lab in preparation for SM4, a massive final mission to revive the Hubble teleoscope. Since the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003, NASA has implemented multiple safety precautions in prepration of the SM4 mission to revive the Hubble telescope. Part of the mission will install the cosmic origins spectrograph, a tool to examine the structure of the universe. Costar, which corrected the images must be removed.