NASA engineers got the thumbs up on Monday to start planning a robotic mission to rescue the Hubble Space Telescope.
Late last week, Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, which helps it look at black holes and faraway galaxies, broke.
NASA chief Sean O'Keefe told engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to plan a way to repair the instrument and to install two new instruments — a sophisticated camera and a spectrograph. They had been scheduled for delivery by a 2006 space shuttle mission to the telescope that was canceled in January.
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