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STS-125 flight stack
Mission-specific Space Shuttle flight stack
Vehicle and mission dossier
STS-125
STS-125 completed Hubble Servicing Mission 4, the observatory's final Shuttle visit. Across five astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, repaired two existing instruments, replaced gyroscopes and batteries, added thermal protection and a docking target, and extended Hubble's productive life.
Flight profile
- Launch
- May 11, 2009
- Landing
- May 24, 2009
- Mission duration
- 12d 21h 37m
Places and recovery
Vehicle record
- Orbiter
- Space Shuttle Atlantis
- Mission or test
- STS-125
- Configuration
- , external tank, two , and three main engines
- Status
- Mission hardware disposition recorded by component
- Mission type
- Hubble deployment or servicing
- Crew and station travelers
- 7
- Program
- Space Shuttle
- Crew complement
- 7
- Outcome
- Completed
- Archive classification
- Human spaceflight
- Primary objective
- Final Space Shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Flight objectives
- Launch Atlantis and its crew safely into .
- Final Space Shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Complete the mission's assigned payload, , research, deployment, servicing, or logistics work.
- Return Atlantis and the landing crew safely to Earth.
Flight timeline
- May 11, 2009LaunchAtlantis began the fifth and final Hubble servicing mission.
- May 13, 2009Hubble capturedCanadarm secured the telescope in Atlantis's payload bay.
- Five EVAsObservatory overhauledAstronauts installed, repaired, and replaced major science and support systems.
- May 24, 2009LandingAtlantis returned after releasing the renewed observatory.
People Who Flew Aboard This Spacecraft
Andrew J. FeustelSTS-125 / Mission Specialist
Gregory Carl JohnsonSTS-125 / Pilot
John Mace GrunsfeldSTS-125 / Mission Specialist
Katherine Megan McArthurSTS-125 / Mission Specialist
Michael James MassiminoSTS-125 / Mission Specialist
Michael T. GoodSTS-125 / Mission Specialist
Scott D. AltmanSTS-125 / Commander