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Rescuing the Hubble Space Telescope Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Ph.D.! NASA Astronaut! MIT Professor! RESCUINGThe MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department 2013 Lester D. Gardner Lecture/Symposium HUBBLE A SYMPOSIUM TO COMMEMORATE THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF STS-61 THE FIRST HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION. NOVEMBER 13, 2013 10AM-6PM • MIT BARTOS THEATER, MIT BUILDING E15, 20 AMES STREET 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: [email protected] This event is open to the public. PARTICIPANTS 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 3 9 10 15 So what can we do to fix the problem?! STS-61/SM-1: 2-13 December 1993 29 30 31 33 35 38 39 “The Pillars of Creation” Hubble Heritage http://heritage.stsci.edu/ The Hubble Deep Field Tnow = 13.7 Gyr Age (Gyr) 6.33 1.18 3.56 1.11 2.40 2.37 2.01 STScI Science Project: Robert Williams. et al. (1997) 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 .

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