Celebrating 30 Years of Hubble with Astronaut John Grunsfeld
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Former astronaut and NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld is often called the Hubble Repairman. He made three space shuttle trips to the space telescope to repair and upgrade it. Now he looks back over three decades of science, beautiful images, and inspiration delivered by the HST. Rubber asteroids are back, and you might win one in the new What’s Up space trivia contest. Great links, including to Mat Kaplan’s live interview with John Grunsfeld, are at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0527-2020-john-grunsfeld-hubble-30th.html
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| 0:00.0 | The astronaut known as the Hubble Repair Man marks the telescope's 30th anniversary this week on |
| 0:06.3 | planetary radio. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our |
| 0:17.4 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:19.8 | The Hubble Space Telescope has just completed three decades in space. |
| 0:24.9 | Its accomplishments have far exceeded even its most optimistic creators. |
| 0:29.6 | One of those accomplishments is how the beauty and wonder it has revealed, have thrilled and inspired |
| 0:35.7 | hundreds of millions of Earthlings. |
| 0:38.1 | We'll review its life so far with the man who visited it three times, the astronaut who would |
| 0:43.4 | later become NASA's chief scientist |
| 0:46.0 | and who is still using the Hubble in his research today. |
| 0:49.7 | For all of its successes, the Hubble has yet to find the fabled rubber asteroid, but we have |
| 0:56.3 | one waiting for the winner of this week's What's Up Space Trivia Contest, along with a great new book. |
| 1:02.1 | This week's biggest space story is in last Friday's edition of the |
| 1:05.6 | downlink. As I record this, we are still a few hours away from the launch of a SpaceX |
| 1:11.8 | crew dragon on Demonstration Mission 2, |
| 1:14.8 | the mission that will take Bob Benkin and Doug Hurley |
| 1:17.8 | to the International Space Station. |
| 1:20.1 | Like most of you, all of us at the Planetary Society will be watching and holding our breath as the |
| 1:25.9 | Falcon 9 rocket sends them soaring. |
| 1:29.0 | The W-1st Telescope is no more. |
| 1:31.5 | No, not cancelled, but renamed the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. |
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