May 14, 2009-- Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustal have the comparatively easy tasks today of swapping out a new transmitter/computer on Hubble as well as the new Wide Field Camera-3. I say "easy" because later tasks include tearing into the guts of the broken Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. They failed starting in 2004. School kids want ACS to work for the neat pictures it takes. Astronomers want STIS back for the neat data.

90.7 also aired my piece on how Kennedy Space Center workers are being offered re-training for when the Shuttle program ends. Here's the link...

http://www.wmfe.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9475&news_iv_ctrl=1041