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denali414 | Thought a thread on the various Hubble Space Telescope flown items would be a good topic. Hubble telescope MLI (multilayer insulation) from April 10, 1990 to Dec. 24, 1999. Retro Space Images 1/75 Bay 10 door MLI blanket. There is also a larger lucite, which is the same picture and one of 17. Hubble Space Telescope returned solar cells(3) from the first servicing mission. |
denali414 | Piece of payload bay liner flown on STS-125/HST-SM4 Shuttle Atlantis. |
SpaceAholic | F/30 Relay Optical baffle returned from the first Hubble service mission (it was deintegrated from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 1 (WFPC-1) assembly after offload from the Shuttle and subsequent transported to Goddard Space Flight Center. WFPC-1 was replaced with WFPC-2 and COSTAR during that service mission. The optical bench itself was reutilized to build out WFC3 (installed on a later flight) but many of the flown electro-optical components including this artifact were not. Its sisters resides in the National Air and Space Museum collection.
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denali414 | WOW! that is one sweet piece of memorabilia! Great find. ESA solar cells from the Hubble telescope. |
denali414 | Bay liner flown in space on Endeavour STS-61 for Hubble mission bookmark Dec. 2-13, 1993. |
denali414 | Flown flag on STS-31 in recognition of contributions to the Hubble Space Telescope program: |
bklyn55 | Anybody know how many of the Hubble MLI lucites were made? Not the ones from Retro Space Images but the first one shown on this thread. |
Philip | Have seen those on display at ESA and at the STScI together with some great metal scale models. |
denali414 | Nothing on lucite about numbers and the box just has a paper on taking care of lucite, no certificates or numbers. |
bklyn55 | Anybody know who made them? |
denali414 | They were given directly from NASA as a gift of appreciation for being part of the Hubble telescope team. |
GACspaceguy | Our Hubble display has an engineering-type model with what appears to be actual solar panel segments as well as a couple of the lucites mentioned above. Neither has any number or batch number. |
denali414 | STS-109 flown bookmark for Hubble mission: |
denali414 | Slightly different ESA Hubble solar panel presentation with the flags of ESA countries (also not numbered, like the other): |