all right we now know more about outer
space than we've ever known before and
one big reason for that the Hubble
telescope believe it or not it is about
to be 30 years old but it's still
sending back images that are stunning
and changing what we know about space
NASA astronaut Michael good was on the
final service mission to Hubble and
joined Justin Horne to talk about
Hubble's future right very exciting
morning we're talking to Mike good at
NASA astronaut he's got some information
on the Hubble telescope so let's get
started thanks to the upgrades you made
to the Hubble telescope it continues to
get breathtaking images including
Hubble's largest deep view of the
universe Mike can you show us some of
these new images sure good morning
Justin great to be with you I'd like to
share with you one of the new images
that's coming down from Hubble we like
to call this the legacy deep field
so this Hubble stared at up just a small
part of the night sky about the size of
a full moon but Justin what you're
looking at here all those blips of light
those are all galaxies with millions and
millions of stars each so we're looking
at over almost a quarter million
galaxies in this picture it's a
compilation of over 16 years of Hubble
staring into the night sky so and
looking back at some of the first light
of the universe over 13 billion years
ago that is incredible and can you talk
about some of the types of upgrades
you've made to Hubble sure ten years ago
today I was on orbit inside the Hubble
telescope on the final servicing mission
and four-by servicing mission I mean we
did some scheduled maintenance we made
some upgrades and did some repairs here
you can see an astronaut coming out of
the airlock and going into the payload
Bay which became our garage to work on
Hubble for over the five days of
spacewalks but we did some scheduled
maintenance we replace the batteries and
the gyros things that will enable Hubble
to last longer we also did some upgrades
we took up brand new cameras and a
spectrograph replace those we also did
some repairs on orbit some surgery
inside a Hubble
repair a faulty camera and a faulty
spectrograph so by the time we left ten
years ago Hubble was at the apex of its
capabilities and continues to do some
great work and send back new discoveries
every day videos the video is awesome to
watch so I have to imagine but what is
it like to work on this massive
telescope in space well getting that you
know put on a spacesuit and go out and
do a spacewalk was definitely one of the
highlights of my mission here you can
see me on the end of the robotic arm and
I'm helping my space walking buddy Mike
Massimino get into the telescope here
I'm celebrating one of the successes I
had swapping out one of the gyros
onboard but you can see just the the
views from space or spectacular it's
pretty cool to be out there outside the
ship and not looking through a window
but only looking through your visor only
the visor of the spacesuit between me
and the vacuum of space so pretty
incredible and an incredible privilege
to be able to go outside and do that no
doubt in Hubble's gonna be 30 years old
next year so how was it how was it
holding up yeah hard to believe it's
doing great it's going strong it
continues to unlock the mysteries of the
universe
we just passed 1.4 million observations
that Hubble's taken over the years so
you know when we went up to do the final
servicing mission 10 years ago we were
hoping to get five more years out of
Hubble but it continues to go strong and
hopefully it'll go well into the 2020s
and continue to provide the images not
only for astronomers and astrophysicists
but for teachers and students this is
the people's telescope so it's there's
something for everyone to learn here
absolutely Mike I got to ask you as
someone who's been to space before how
excited are you that NASA is planning to
return to the moon
I'm super excited that's it was a great
announcement I just remember as a young
boy in Ohio watching the astronauts the
Apollo astronauts launch and land on the
moon
and it was certainly inspiring to me as
a kid I probably wasn't smart enough to
even dream about being an astronaut at
that time but it certainly inspired me
to study math and science in school I
knew I wanted to be a part of this
business to build and you know design
and build airplanes and rockets so but
now we're gonna go back to the moon to
stay we're gonna build bases there and
it's really a stepping stone for us to
go on to Mars someday Mike that's
incredible stuff we really appreciate
you joining us this morning thank you so
much for your time
great to be with you have a great day
what a great interview Justin and it's
so mind-blowing to think about this
colonizing the moon putting bases up
then go ahead Mars this is so sci-fi hey
yeah it'll make your brain hurt if you
think about it too much but yeah these
are some smart guys and be able to do
what they've done with Hubble to get the
images that we can see it's just those
were all galaxies mm-hmm millions of
galaxies containing millions of stars
exactly and remember that it's like that
much of the galaxy it's looking at
unbelievable designs this stuff rocket
scientists smart people over there at
NASA but it's really neat stuff very
interesting the talk to him