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Published online 31 October 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061030-5
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NASA approves Hubble repair
Servicing mission will keep telescope aloft until 2013.
NASA administrator Michael Griffin announced today that the agency will mount a manned mission to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope.
"We are going to add a shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope," Griffin told employees at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, which carries out daily operations of the Hubble.
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