# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/lD1K5hIaAZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11739412-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/c821b41da3.jpg
- **Posted:** 2014-03-03T00:10:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

More #RealGravity images tonight as #Gravity is up for awards at the #Oscars2014:  The Hubble Space Telescope is seen in a picture snapped by a Servicing Mission 4 crewmember just after the Space Shuttle Atlantis captured Hubble with its robotic arm on May 13, 2009, beginning the mission to upgrade and repair the telescope.

Hubble is a national asset and an invaluable international scientific resource that has revolutionized modern astronomy. To achieve its full potential, the telescope will continue to conduct extensive, integrated scientific observations, including follow-up work on its many discoveries. Although the telescope has numerous redundant parts and safemode systems, such a complex spacecraft could not be designed with sufficient backups to handle every contingency during a mission lasting more than 24 years. Orbital servicing
was the key to keeping Hubble in operating condition to this very day.

Image credit: NASA
#nasa #space #iss #spacepix #gravity #oscars2014 #oscars #realgravity #oscarceremony

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nasa, iss, space, realgravity, oscars, gravity, oscarceremony, spacepix, oscars2014

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