Within lay the flawed wiring of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS).

BBC: Brute force helps Hubble renewal

On Sunday, mission specialists Michael Massimino and Michael Good had to contend with a handrail blocking their access to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), resorting in the end to tearing it off with brute force.

BBC: Shuttle releases repaired Hubble

The Far Ultraviolet Imaging instrument is collecting the first-ever images from space of the Earth's proton aurora.

BBC: Atmosphere Nasa

It's been a while since we last heard of the ISERV Pathfinder, an imaging instrument that consists of a camera, telescope and pointing system that was sent up to the International Space Station last July.

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Medical technologies that help prolong life, such as the imaging processing used in CAT scanners and MRI machines, trace their origins to technology engineered for the use in space.

CNN: Bush: 'It is time for America to take the next steps' in space