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Science 19 March 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5409, p. 1827
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5409.1827a
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ASTRONOMY:
NASA Plans Earlier Hubble Rescue

David Malakoff

WASHINGTON, D.C.--For months, NASA has been weighing the possibility of losing its most productive science instrument, the Hubble Space Telescope, against the certainty of disrupting a carefully choreographed launch schedule involving its most important engineering mission, the international space station. Hubble won. NASA announced last week that it will mount a special space shuttle mission in October to replace failing gyroscopes that threaten to cripple the telescope's ability to do science.

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