This last week there's been a shuttle mission going on, carryng out the final repairs to the hubble telescope. It's been streamed on NasaTV, which i was watching everyday until i discovered you can just watch the edited highlights on youtube.
After work done over the 5 spacewalks, several with various technical difficulties (read: the fucking latch wouldn't open) and technical solutions (read: just ripped the bloody handrail off), the hubble was all fixed and ready to go again.
On flight day 9, the crew released the hubble telescope from the shuttle's payload bay and the two machines began drifting their seperate ways. I'd like to emphasise 'drifting' is meant relative to each other.. they're actually both travelling around 17,000 mph.
Anyway, like most of the Spacewalk videos i think it's pretty beautiful, especially in HD (which this is also available in) so i'm linking it in the blog.
Planned landing is friday, but theyre still putting up video and Astro_Mike is still tweeting (Mike is the guy filming everything and interviews scooter in the 'scooters corner' feature)
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