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Hubble Space Telescope is alive and clicking

Oct. 31, 2008
The restarted telescope resumes sending pictures. But there's a new snag: A NASA repair team won't be sent to the aging craft until at least May. It was a good news, bad news day for NASA on Thursday as space agency managers announced that they had successfully restarted the broken Hubble Space...
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Space shuttle Atlantis ready for rollback

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Two space shuttles at their launch pads

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Endeavour moved to launch pad

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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch