Hubble has been saved
STS-125 Leaves Improved Hubble Behind
"The crew of Atlantis bid farewell to the Hubble Space Telescope on behalf of NASA and the rest of the world Tuesday. The telescope was released back into space at 8:57 a.m. EDT. With its upgrades, the telescope should be able to see farther into the universe than ever before. Tue, 19 May 2009" www.nasa.gov
Hubble Space Telescope has been saved.
To celebrate this formidable moment I choose a spectacular photography.
In "this tightly cropped image the NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in silhouette, side by side during solar transit at 12:17p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, from west of Vero Beach, Florida. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)". (Universe Today)
Instead of choosing one among the hundreds of thousands of amazing images taken by Hubble, I pick this one, showing it side by site with the space shuttle, against the backdrop of our mother star, the Sun, to end my quest in saving The Telescope.
This inspiring picture synthesizes what, for me, it means to be human: To make a difference and stand out even in the grand scale of the infinite universe.
To summarize what it takes for such an image to exist we’d have to list practically the whole of human civilization: physics, mathematics, optics, astronautics, history, politics, literature, biology, medicine, art, persistence, boldness, economics, faith, courage and boundless determination, to name a few.
Having taken part, however minuscule, in this epic adventure, I now say goodbye to the hundreds of thousands of people that visited my website. We all made it happen.
Farewell,
Fernando Ribeiro
Save the Hubble.com
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