The fifth and final mission to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope was a long time coming. After delay in the fall of 2008, spring brought new hope. And on 11th May, the seven Space Shuttle crew members headed for the mission of a lifetime. This is the Hubblecast, news and images from the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At 19 years old, Hubble is the veteran of Space Telescopes. Opening our eyes to the universe that hosts us, Hubble has looked far and deep to reveal fundamental scientific tools. Hubble is not without its battle scars, but the latest servicing mission has left it more capable than ever. Astronauts had just five spacewalks to complete the Herculian tasks set before them. The installation of two completely new instruments and the repair of two others, and not to mention hundreds of smaller but still vital tasks. This kind of space mechanics was never intended and likely never even dreamed of by Hubble's creators in the 1970s. A dedicated team of ESA engineers headed to the US to support the mission by ensuring the solar arrays drive electronics and mechanisms were functioning properly. The very lifeblood of Hubble, the panels must be monitored constantly so that astronauts can do the work that they need to do while avoiding damage to the panels themselves. But before anyone could support the mission, it first had to get off the ground. A bright, clear and powerfully hot morning with very few clouds looked promising for an on-time departure. Invited guests, scientists and engineers and the press gathered across Kennedy Space Center to watch Space Truddle Atlantis rise with the hope of rejuvenating Hubble. At 21 on May 11, Atlantis wore it off the launch pad and into the sky on its way to its historic rendezvous. After Atlantis was safely in the air and all that was left was its trail of smoke, the ESA Hubble Space Telescope team moved north to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland where engineers there are man the stock, the Space Telescope Operations Control Center. There are the ESA team where closely with the Goddard team to ensure both the safety of spacewalking astronauts and the solar panels. Astronauts put in over 36 hours of spacewalks during the 13-day mission. The workhorse with Pick 2 camera was replaced by its more powerful descendant, the with C3 or Widefield Camera 3. With C3 will greatly enhance the observational capabilities of Hubble, providing enhanced field of view and broader wave band. Removing a refrigerator-sized instrument is no small task. Astronauts John Gransfeld and Andrew Foistel removed Hubble's co-star package that was no longer needed to make way for the new Cosmic Origin Spectrograph cause. Cos will study the large-scale structure of the universe and the formation and evolution of galaxies, stars and planets. It will also help determine the formation of elements considered essential for life, such as carbon and iron. Astronauts didn't just perform transplant surgery. They also did corrective operations on two existing instruments with great success. The space telescope imaging spectrograph, Stis, that combines a camera with a spectrograph and covers a wide range of wavelengths from the near and for red region into the ultraviolet was affected by a power failure. Astronauts had a particularly difficult time repairing Stis due to a stubborn bolt on the instrument's handrail. But after Houston gave astronaut Mike Messimino the go-ahead to use brute force, he was able to break the handrail and access Stis. The advanced camera for surveys and another of Hubble's workhorse instruments was also down due to power failure. The servicing Mission 4 repair has bought it new life. As astronaut Megan MacArthur released Hubble from the shuttle script and the pilot's carefully maneuvered away, it was a bitter sweet moment for the astronauts as well as the NASA and ESA support personnel on the ground. The last time humans would visit the telescope that has taught us so much about our origin and our place in the vast universe. Now that you've caught up with Hubble, make sure to get the latest from the ground too. The ESA cast highlights the best of the European Southern Observatory and its powerful telescopes that observe from high in the Chilean andes at the Southern Hemisphere's best known sites for astronomical observations.