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The space shuttle Atlantis crew began its final spacewalk to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope on Monday morning. If all goes as planned, it will be the last time human hands touch the orbiting telescope, which has provided astronomers distant images that have helped them see further into the origins of the universe.
The space shuttle Atlantis closed in early Wednesday on the Hubble Space Telescope, nearing the end of a chase that began almost two days earlier. Atlantis is scheduled to rendezvous with Hubble at 7:41 a.m.
A survey of space shuttle Atlantis’ outer body has revealed that four tiles on the right side have "some dings" in them, the flight director said Tuesday. “As we were going through the surveys we did see probably about 21 inches in all … four tiles with some dings in them,” Tony Ceccacci told reporters