Smithsonian Museum Receives Former Hubble Components

This May, the space shuttle Atlantis flew the fifth and final repair flight to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. The changes weren't purely aesthetic. A number of instruments, including the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, or WFPC-2, were replaced with better ones. The observatory... [ read more >> ]

NASA's Wide Field and Planetary 2 camera on display in the National Air and Space Museum's Space Hall

Image comment: NASA's Wide Field and Planetary 2 camera on display in the National Air and Space Museum's Space Hall
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NASA's Wide Field and Planetary 2 camera on display in the National Air and Space Museum's Space Hall