Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Hubble Is Back In Orbit

"It's amazing looking back at how hard things looked a couple of times -- more difficult than I ever expected -- and then to overcome and wind up with everything done in the way that it was. We were very successful," Atlantis commander Scott Altman told reporters during an in-flight news conference [today]. The shuttle crew is preparing to wrap up its 11-day mission with a landing on Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida."