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NASA's plans to fly a fifth and final space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope have suffered another set-back.

NASA's efforts to get the ailing Hubble Space Telescope working again have hit a snag, and engineers are trying to figure out their next step. Officials had hoped to have the 18-year-old observatory back in business Friday, after it stopped sending...

After the Hubble Space Telescope shut down two weeks ago, NASA engineers will begin to reboot it Wednesday morning, the space agency said.

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NASA said Monday it is delaying its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of a serious breakdown of the observatory in orbit.

A serious equipment failure aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is preventing it from relaying data and images to scientists on Earth and may impact plans to launch a shuttle mission to overhaul the orbital observatory next month, NASA officials said Monday

This is exactly why we send astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble: in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. Get your tin foil hats out, be

NASA shuttle program manager John Shannon said Atlantis and its seven-astronaut crew are facing the extra risk solely because of their destination.

NASA has delayed next month's space shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope by two days.

NASA on Labor Day postponed by at least 24 hours plans to haul the shuttle Atlantis from a hanger at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to a coastal launching pad in order to monitor the movements of Hurricane Hanna.