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Hubble instruments-turned-artifacts star in new Smithsonian Air and Space gallery [i]The camera that captured many of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" that focused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted Wednesday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC along with the first phase of a new interactive gallery devoted to humans living and working in space. "Moving Beyond Earth", which replaces the prior Rocketry and Space Flight gallery that originally opened just before the start of the space shuttle era in 1979, seeks to tell the story of the U.S. Space Transportation System (STS) and the accompanying efforts to build a space station with an approach mimicking NASA's own history. "The gallery is in its first stage," explained curator Valerie Neal. "What you see here today is essentially a footprint for what will be a fully built-out gallery in the next two years. We are approaching this incrementally, just as NASA approached the International Space Station. We are not doing it all at once, we're phasing it in, element by element."[/i]
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