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The space shuttle Atlantis launched for NASA's final rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:09 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Endeavour Space Shuttle Exclusive: A Timelapse of A Final Ride](/video/ZvIcsnxN/) ### Endeavour Space Shuttle Exclusive: A Timelapse of A Final Ride [The Space Shuttle Atlantis Comes Home](/video/bpw2BWwt/) ### The Space Shuttle Atlantis Comes Home [Mood and Meaning at the Final Shuttle Launch](/video/OUYulq7s/) ### Mood and Meaning at the Final Shuttle Launch --- ## Transcript >> And we're approaching the end of the shuttle here- so this'll be the last time we'll watch a shuttle launch for a Hubble mission and that's both exciting and it makes you [ unk ] a little nostalgic. >> Hubble is arguably been the most spectacular scientific instrument in history in my opinion. This is the mission that is gonna make Hubble actually- with the best complement of instruments it has ever had and prolong its life by installing new batteries, new gyroscopes and so on. >> Hubble right now before this mission was sort of hobbling along. >> It's been 7 years since we serviced it and then it's- if you take your 5, 000- mile service centerfold for a charring you say, " I'm gonna wait until 10, 000 miles, things start to break ." And we've had that problem particularly with our scientific instruments, so we're not only going to restore or replenish the toolkit or scientific instruments that we have, but the ones that we're putting in are better than any we've ever had before. -[ unk ] 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and lift off! Our space shuttle [ unk ]. Final [ unk ] tuning in the mission of Hubble into the deepest grandeur of our universe. >> All right. >> Yeah. -[ unk ] >> Up to this point, it's just preparation- just prolong. >> But what's gonna come in after this mission is over? >> With the new tools we have and the incredible new technology we're gonna apply to our science, I think the prior years of Hubble kind of opened doors and now we're gonna go through that. >> The Atlantis is continuing in its due easterly course to catch up with the Hubble space telescope one last time. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Final Shuttle to Hubble","description":"The space shuttle Atlantis launched for NASA's final rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/3OpSEbB3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-05-12T01:06:22.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3OpSEbB3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/3OpSEbB3/","duration":"PT2M24S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/3OpSEbB3/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```