Hubble Telescope

I have two zucchini loafs in the oven, my son asleep in his bassinet and my husband just left for his second overnight shift for NASA. While I'm waiting for the bread to finish, I'm just going to take a moment to explain how historic this shuttle mission is. To put it very briefly of what James does for NASA, he works for Boeing contracted to NASA. He studies the thermal signatures of the shuttle, to make sure it doesn't burn up or freeze. This mission is the last mission to the Hubble Telescope. The Hubble Telescope is located 300 nautical miles from Earth and it gives us an extended eye to the unknown universe. The Atlantis crew is going up to Hubble one last time to make final repairs. NASA hopes that these repairs would last Hubble about 10 years before it no longer works. Currently NASA is working on another telescope that will go out much farther than Hubble. One of the reasons that this mission is so dangerous is because IF something were to happen to the Atlantis shuttle, the Endeavour would have to launch in order to go up and save the crew. During normal missions, it is not a big deal because the shuttle is docked to the space station. But for this mission, there is no safe haven for the crew. The odds are there, but we're all praying that they are slim. Anyway, this is one last maintenance for the historic Hubble telescope. It has given us such beautiful images to look at. This image has often be referred to as "The Eye of God."Well, my zuchinni bread is done and I'm off to bed!