NOVA | Hubble's Amazing Rescue | PBS

[MrMykee18]

I saw the episode last night. I was up til 3 am and it was worth watching. :)

[Hodson2000]

I was so gung ho to see this i ordered the DVD on Amazon and requested 2 day delivery. That was 10 days ago. UPS lost my dvd...now Im waiting for a replacement from PBS...ARGH!

[ShortyLongstrokin]

That was a great episode...one of the best to come from "Nova" in a long time.

[jhance11]

It makes you really realize what real hero's are again. People sloober over singers , athletes, actors like they were real hero need to watch this. when was the last time any of those mentioned above put there life on the line.

[MeansDarling]

So cool! I want to go to space.

[Athenaikos]

I think unmanned robotics will be the next stage for space telescopes. Also future telescopes will be delivered through rockets not the space shuttle.

[Bluzer86]

Where do you sing up ? :)

[wirtlo]

Why not make a new hubble?

[anmoose]

@ wirtlo, to reproduce Hubble would cost billions. The telescope is perfect, the optics are already there. The peripherals were outdated and dieing. Replacing them has given it capabilities never imagined when it first went up. It IS a new Hubble, done without reinventing it.

[wirtlo]

anmoose - thanks for the response. I didn't realize it cost billions and that capabilities were added. It just seems like additional space flights, fixing it, and paying all the people to make those additional flights possible would cost quite a lot too - but probably not billions! heh..

[JixMa]

This looks great! I can't wait to watch it. Wasn't there already a Nova program on this latest rescue of Hubble or was that on Nova ScienceNow, I'm recalling? I recall seeing that part about the stuck bolt then the astronaut turned off the torque limiter on the tool and it freed the the bolt.