The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...
First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means things are ...
Click to open image viewer. This is the original, flown Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) that was installed on the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1993, and removed during the last servicing ...