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Following on from the success of the first Hubble service mission in December 1993, the main media focus shifted to the forthcoming flights of American astronauts to the Russian Mir space station and the transformation from what was to have been the American Space Station Freedom with the cooperation of a number of foreign partners, to the newly designated fully Space Station which would use some of the hardware originally intended for Mir 2 before those plans were put on hold by the breakup of the Soviet Union. To accommodate missions to both Mir and the ISS, NASA had to sacrifice some of the planned scientific missions on the shuttle. Several Spacelab pressurized module and pallet missions were excised from the manifest, but planning for a further three (possibly four) service missions to Hubble remained firmly on the manifest, although the preparations to launch them would be as challenging as ever.
The point of the second service mission was not to fix Hubble , but to improve it.
Steve Hawley , STS-82 Mission Specialist
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When the fourth of NASA ’s Great Observatories was launched in 2003, it was named the Spitzer Space Telescope .
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Shayler, D.J., Harland, D.M. (2016). Service Mission 2. In: Enhancing Hubble's Vision. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22644-6_1
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