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From the American Museum of Natural History...

Original image here .

Hubble Space Telescope in the cargo bay of Atlantis. NASA

And the blogger for NASA is cute .

Hubble Space Telescope was launched April 24, 1990. Despite the early disappointments requiring herculean efforts to fix it, Hubble remains one of the wonders of the modern world -- taking us back to the dawn of creation and further into space than anyone could have imagined. The two images here are the M-51 (Whirlpool) galaxy and the Eagle Nebula (part of the "pillars of creation").

The new cargo transport, Jules Verne class, has been cleared for docking at the International Space Station. To me, it's oddly reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey -- at least from the design style.