posted 11-04-2013 12:30 PM               

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of STS-61, the first Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission, MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ will present "Rescuing Hubble," a daylong symposium, on Wednesday, November 13, 2013, from 10 am until 6 pm.

Participants include:

• STS-61 Space Shuttle Endeavour crewmembers AeroAstro Professor Jeff Hoffman (EVA) (symposium co-chairman), Dick Covey (mission commander), Ken Bowersox (pilot), Story Musgrave (payload commander, EVA), and Tom Akers (EVA).
  
• David Mindell, AeroAstro, and Program in Science, Technology, and Society Professor (symposium co-chairman)
  
• Robert Williams, Space Telescope Institute former director
  
• Frank Cepollina, Space Servicing Capabilities Manager
  
• James Crocker, Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement designer
  
• John Trauger, Wide Field and Planetary Camera correction designer
  
• Joseph Rothenberg, former NASA associate administrator for space flight
  
• Ronald Sheffield, Lockheed Hubble Space Telescope crew training manager
  
• Kathy Flanagan, Space Telescope Science Institute acting deputy director
  
• John Logsdon, former director, George Washington Space Policy Institute
  
• Milton Heflin, STS-61 lead flight director