...next decade by refurbishing and upgrading the telescope with state-of-the-art science instruments and swapping failed hardware. Scott Altman will command STS-125, with Gregory C. Johnson serving as pilot. Mission specialists are veteran spacewalkers...
...and billions in taxpayer investment will come down to the work of seven people. On Friday, five of them - astronauts Scott Altman, Gregory Johnson, John Grunsfeld, Michael Good and Andrew Feustel - stood in their blue NASA jumpsuits in a meeting room at...
...looking forward to a risky, but pivotal, shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope this fall. Veteran shuttle commander Scott Altman and his crew are preparing to launch in early October aboard the Atlantis orbiter on what is expected to be NASA's...
...news, bad news. It's been one of those weeks for Space Shuttle Cmdr. Scott Altman. His mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble space telescope has been delayed from this month to sometime in 2009, but his beloved Cubs are in the playoffs. If Altman's...
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Captain Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman, United States Navy, (born 15 August 1959) is a NASA astronaut and veteran of three space shuttle missions. He will perform his fourth space shuttle mission on STS-125, the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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