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STS-125 Hubble Mission T-ShirtOur STS-125 mission t-shirt is screen printed on a white Hanes Heavyweight 100% cotton t-shirt. It celebrates the historic final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. The design includes the official STS-125 mission patch, and features images of Space Shuttle Atlantis, the Hubble telescope and an astronaut conducting a spacewalk. The STS-125 mission is scheduled to launch on October 8th, 2008, and will be the fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The mission will be flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis will carry two new instruments to the HST, in addition to a replacement Fine Guidance Sensor, six new gyroscopes and batteries to allow the telescope to continue to function at least through 2013. The crew will also install a new thermal blanket layer to provide improved insulation, and a soft-capture mechanism to aid in the safe de-orbiting of the spacecraft by an unmanned spacecraft at the end of its operational lifespan.
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