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NASA Celebrates 25 Years of Servicing

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Hubble's first servicing mission, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center hosted a seminar on December 7, 2018, and an event at the Goddard Visitor Center on December 8, 2018, to reflect upon the challenges and lessons learned from all five Hubble servicing missions, and to look toward the future of satellite servicing.

(From left to right) Joseph Rothenberg, Edward Weiler, Christopher Scolese, Robert Strain, and Alphonso Diaz have all served as director...
Five men stand in a row onstage, smiling at the camera.
Hubble Outreach and Social Media Lead Erin Kisliuk (second from right) checks guests in for a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25...
Erin Kisliuk (right) looks through a guest check-in list, while a family of visitors in the foreground on the left (a man, a woman, and two children) wait to be checked in. More visitors are visible in the background.
Hubble outreach specialist Stephanie Clark (left) and Hubble Deputy Project Manager James Jeletic (right) prepare name badges for volunteers at...
Stephanie Clark (left) and Jim Jeletic (right) put together name badges, with a visitor visible in the background.
A boy uses an augmented reality app to learn more about Hubble servicing missions during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25...
A boy, facing away from the camera on the right-hand side of the image, points an iPad at a Hubble servicing mission banner on the left side.
A boy views a light through diffraction glasses as Space Telescope Science Institute Outreach Scientist Chris Britt (right) explains how...
Chris Britt (right), standing behind the outreach table with interactive activities, speaks with a visitor, a boy who's holding a pair of yellow paper glasses with clear lenses. Another visitor is visible in the background on the left
Hubble engineers Ed Rezac (left), Steve Arslanian (center), and Morgan Van Arsdall (right) show children some of the tools astronauts...
Two men (left and center) and one woman (right) stand behind the table with a black NASA tablecloth, showing astronaut tools to three visiting kids and their adult chaperone.
A visitor (right) holds a pistol grip tool used by astronauts to service Hubble in space and learns about how...
Steve (left) and Morgan (center), standing behind the table, allow a visitor (right) to hold an astronaut tool, with two children partially visible in the foreground.
Goddard Center Deputy Director George Morrow welcomes visitors during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years of Servicing" event at the...
George Morrow (left) speaks with a microphone to a listening audience (right), with a picture of Hubble on the introductory slide on the screen above him.
Hubble Servicing Mission 1 astronaut Kathryn Thornton provides background information about the space telescope during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25...
Kathy Thornton (left) speaks to a listening audience (right), with a picture of Lyman Spitzer slide on the screen above her.
Hubble Servicing Mission 1 astronaut Kathryn Thornton talks about the space telescope during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years of...
Kathy Thornton speaks to a listening audience, with a picture of Hubble on the slide on the screen above her.
Goddard employee Maurice Henderson gives a Science on a Sphere presentation during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years of Servicing"...
Maurice Henderson speaks to a listening audience, with a display projected onto a sphere behind him.
Hubble engineer Steve Arslanian (right) shows visitors some of the tools astronauts used to repair one of Hubble's science instruments...
Arslanian (right), standing behind the table, demonstrates astronaut tools for two visitors (left).
Space Telescope Science Institute Outreach Scientist Chris Britt (right) helps children examine different lights through filter glasses and diffraction glasses...
Britt (right), from behind the table, tells four kids (left) how to use the paper glasses with multi-colored lenses to look at the Hubble science image on the small screen.
Children interact with an infrared camera with assistance from Peter Sooy (right), James Webb Space Telescope communications specialist, during a...
Sooy (right) watches as three young visitors (left) use the infrared camera display. Two more people converse in the background.
Two young boys view lights through diffraction glasses and filter glasses during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years of Servicing"...
Two boys use paper glasses with clear diffraction lenses to look at a screen with rainbow colors on it.
A girl uses an augmented reality app to learn more about a galaxy during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years...
A girl (right) stands on the left side of the picture while pointing an iPad at a banner with a picture of a galaxy on the right side of the image. A table in the background has a black NASA tablecloth, a monitor on it with a Hubble image, and a scale model of Hubble. A chaperone (left) watches nearby.
James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Systems Engineer Begoña Vila talks with visitors about infrared light during a "Hubble Space Telescope:...
Begoña Vila, right, smiles while speaking to a child, center, who stands with a chaperone, left, while using the Webb Infrared Camera exhibit.
Visitors learn about the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope from Randy Kimble (right), the telescope's Integration and Test Project Scientist,...
Randy Kimble, right, stands in front of a model of the Webb Space Telescope and talks about it to two visitors, left.
James Webb Space Telescope Integration and Test Project Scientist Randy Kimble is reflected in a sample mirror segment for the...
Randy Kimble and the model of the Webb Space Telescope that he's explaining are both reflected in the hexagonal Webb sample mirror segment.
Hubble Deputy Operations Project Scientist Knicole Colon (left) and communications intern Stephanie Zeller (right) were on hand to show visitors...
Colon (left) and Zeller (right) sit talking with an activity cart between them; it has a poster about the electromagnetic spectrum attached to the front, with a picture of a galaxy on it. Five black devices with glass light tubes, a plastic container, and a pile of handouts sit on the cart.
NASA communications intern Stephanie Zeller (right) helps visitors use small diffraction gratings to view the spectra of different gases during...
Stephanie Zeller, right, shows a family of four, left, the back of a handout while demonstrating the spectrum tube activity on the right side of the picture. More visitors are visible in the background.
Visitors view a model of the Hubble Space Telescope being grappled by the space shuttle's robotic arm. The photo was...
Two visitors, a man and a woman, examine the model of the Discovery space shuttle with a model of Hubble in its bay, contained in a glass case between them and the camera. Two NASA employees are visible in the background on the left.
Hubble servicing astronaut John Grunsfeld answers questions at an "I Want to Be an Astronaut" session during a "Hubble Space...
John Grunsfeld stands in front of the Science on a Sphere display, on which the display looks like a "globe" of Earth. A group of students and chaperones sit in the foreground, facing him; the student on the far-right has a hand raised.
Hubble Deputy Project Manager James Jeletic (center) introduces Hubble Senior Project Scientist Jennifer Wiseman, who talked about the science made...
Jim Jeletic, microphone in hand, speaks to a listening audience, with a slide featuring the Hubble Space Telescope projected onto the screen behind him.
Hubble Senior Project Scientist Jennifer Wiseman talks about the science made possible by the servicing missions during a "Hubble Space...
Jennifer Wiseman, right, speaks to a listening audience, left, with a "Hubble Space Telescope" intro slide projected onto the screen above them.
Hubble Senior Project Scientist Jennifer Wiseman talks about the science made possible by the servicing missions during a "Hubble Space...
Jennifer Wiseman, left, speaks to a listening audience, with an intro slide projected onto the screen in the upper right.
Hubble Servicing Mission 1 astronaut Kathryn Thornton signs autographs during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years of Servicing" event at...
Kathy Thornton (sitting behind a table on the right) signs one of her astronaut pictures for a visitor (left) with several other visitors and staff visible in the background.
Hubble Servicing Mission 1 astronaut Kathryn Thornton signs autographs for two young visitors during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years...
Kathy Thornton, sitting behind the table with an image of the Hubble Space Telescope behind her, signs an astronaut for two young visitors in the foreground.
Hubble astronaut John Grunsfeld talks to Hubble engineer Ed Rezac during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years of Servicing" event...
Grunsfelt (left) and Rezac (right) talk, with visitors visible in the background.
Hubble astronaut John Grunsfeld talks about the challenges of working on the space telescope during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25...
John Grunsfeld speaks, with an image of Hubble projected onto the screen behind him.
Astronaut John Grunsfeld, who flew on three Hubble servicing missions, talks about working on a telescope in space during a...
John Grunsfeld speaks to a listening audience, with an image of Hubble projected onto the screen above him.
Frank Cepollina, who developed the concepts for modular spacecraft as well as tools and techniques for servicing Hubble, talks during...
Frank Cepollina, left, speaks to a listening audience, with a photograph projected onto the screen.
National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee Frank Cepollina talks about spacecraft servicing during a "Hubble Space Telescope: 25 Years of...
Frank Cepollina (right) speaks to a listening audience (left), with a slide show above them.
Members of the Goddard Astronomy Club set up telescopes outdoors for public observing of the night sky during a "Hubble...
An astronomer (right) calibrates a telescope, while a guest (left) waits to use it.