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Article: Goddard's gift to Hubble: Greenbelt team aids astronauts with repairs to space telescope.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 20, 1997
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The words "Mission Control" mean Houston for most listeners. But another, smaller mission control, one for the Hubble Space Telescope, resides within a modest two-story, red-brick building in Greenbelt, amid white and red oaks, scrub pines, flocks of Canada geese and 70 or so Virginia whitetail deer.
During their $795 million, 10-day Earth-orbital flight, the seven astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery labored making the second planned "service call" on the $2 billion supertelescope, directed by flight controllers in Texas.
Simultaneously, 200 to 300 Hubble team members with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center played crucial, albeit lesser-known ...