Three astronauts have been named to complete the STS-109 crew already in training for a mission that will feature five spacewalks to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in late 2001. GMT Space telescope using membranes studied Lockheed Martin has been contracted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to conduct a study on a low-mass membrane telescope for NASA's New Millennium Program. The telescope concept would allow construction of an orbiting observatory with reduced weight and cost. The Portable Batch System enables system administrators to specify the order in which individual programs should be processed. For the latest spaceflight news and features visit our sister-site, Spaceflight Now .
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