Astronauts finish Hubble repairs.

WOW! What an amazing job the astronauts did by performing five full days of repairs to the now 19 year old telescope. Working in those big clunky space suits must be no easy task and trying to do very refined tasks such as installing data circuit boards must also have been troubling because you don't want to snag your space suit on the edge of the board!

From the article:
"...spacewalking astronauts finished repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope on Monday and shut the doors to the treasured observatory, which will never be touched by human hands again. NASA said the revived telescope will be better than ever thanks to the astronauts' efforts and should provide even more dazzling views of the universe for another five to 10 years. "

I hope the telescope will give us even more spectacular views than ever.

"The $220 million worth of new instruments should allow the telescope to peer even deeper into the cosmos, as far back as 13 billion years. "
For that price tag I really hope it works!

You can read the entire article HERE and there is a brief video worth watching.