{"id":13531,"date":"2005-04-27T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/happy-15th-birthday-hubble\/"},"modified":"2005-04-27T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T22:34:00","slug":"happy-15th-birthday-hubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/happy-15th-birthday-hubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 15th Birthday, Hubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/space\/0,2697,67304,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1#\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hubble image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/hubble_heic0405a_f.11977.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/space\/0,2697,67304,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Wired News<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rednova.com\/news\/space\/146163\/hubble_space_telescope_celebrates_15th_anniversary\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Rednova<\/i><\/a> report that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifteen years ago Monday, at 12:38 p.m. Pacific Time, astronaut Steven Hawley directed the space shuttle&rsquo;s robotic arm to release the Hubble Space Telescope 381 miles above the Earth, launching an era of unprecedented scientific discoveries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  In celebration of the Hubble&rsquo;s 15th birthday, NASA and the <acronym title=\"European Space Agency\">ESA<\/acronym> have released some new images taken by the telescope, which can be seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/space\/0,2697,67304,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1#\" target=\"_blank\">this gallery<\/a> along with some other spectacular photos.<\/p>\n<p>There was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/space\/0,2697,67204,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">some good news<\/a> a couple of weeks ago in regards to the fate of the Hubble Space Telescope when NASA&rsquo;s chief nominee Michael Griffin said that he would &ldquo;reconsider his predecessor&rsquo;s decision to ban humans from repairing the ailing Hubble Space Telescope if confirmed for the job,&rdquo; although that is far from the unconditional reprieve that most people are hoping for.  At least there&rsquo;s a chance to save this amazing instrument that has yielded so many wondrous discoveries and images&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111454303813957668?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired News and Rednova report that Fifteen years ago Monday, at 12:38 p.m. Pacific Time, astronaut Steven Hawley directed the space shuttle&rsquo;s robotic arm to release the Hubble Space Telescope 381 miles above the Earth, launching an era of unprecedented scientific discoveries. In celebration of the Hubble&rsquo;s 15th birthday, NASA and the ESA have released &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/happy-15th-birthday-hubble\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy 15th Birthday, Hubble&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}