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The first service mission to overhaul the Hubble telescope in 1993. The Hubble’s main camera and gyroscopes have failed this week which means, aside from no more pictures, that if the satellite isn’t serviced within the next 12 months, it will fall into the atmosphere and burn up. A repair mission seams unlikely as NASA have said that if they suffer any more failures, the entire shuttle program may be scrapped ahead of its planned 2010 retirement.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Hubble Heritage.