5 Things: Space Servicing
Music credit: Universal Music Production
“Percs & Pizz,” Nicolas Montazaud [ SACEM ]
“In Light of Things,” Matthew Charles Gilbert Davidson [ PRS ]
“Patisserie Pressure,” Benjamin James Parson [ PRS ]
Just as cars need maintenance on Earth, sometimes spacecraft need fixing, too. When astronauts work on spacecraft in orbit, it's called space servicing.
Want to know more about space servicing? Leave your questions in the comments below for a Q&A from 12-2 p.m. EDT on 5/14 with NASA astronauts and experts!
Fun fact! Astronauts traveled to the Hubble Space Telescope for five servicing missions. Their work is the reason why Hubble has lasted 30 years in space, showing us images of the universe as a more colorful and stranger place than we ever imagined.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Producer
- Haley Reed (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Scientist
- Christy Hansen (NASA/HQ)
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Associate producers
- Paul R. Morris (USRA)
- Teresa Johnson (NASA/GSFC)
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Animator
- Bailee DesRocher (USRA)
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Videographers
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Public affairs
- Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, May 13, 2020.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:44 PM EDT.
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