![]() The latest challenge facing Hubble came last month when the telescope went into safe mode on three separate occasions following ongoing issues with the gyroscope, which is clearly in need of a fix. The first Hubble servicing mission showed that NASA was still as adept at snatching victory from the jaws of defeat – other missions such as the Skylab recovery and Apollo 13 spring to mind – even as it reeled from its unwanted status as punchline to a dozen terrible jokes. "A lot of the knowledge that was developed there transferred directly to construction of the International Space Station and it'll transfer to the things we do with Gateway someday," said Kenneth Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, who was also an astronaut on Servicing Mission 1. The experience gained also fed into future programs.
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