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Hubble Amazing Rescue

UK PREMIERE ONE-OFF TUESDAY 1ST NOVEMBER, 8.00PM

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After nearly 20 years in space and hundreds of thousands of spectacular images, the Hubble Space Telescope’s gyroscopes and sensors were failing, and the only hope to save Hubble was a mission so dangerous that in 2004 NASA cancelled it due to its high risks. Scientists and the general public alike stubbornly refused to abandon the telescope, and a new NASA administrator revived the mission. 

Hubble’s Amazing Rescue takes viewers behind the scenes on a riveting journey with the team of astronauts and engineers charged with saving the famous “orbiting observatory” against all odds. While Hubble’s Amazing Rescue documents the end of space shuttle missions to the world-famous telescope, it also features new images, information and insights that will emerge from the powerful upgrades.