Servicing complete on Hubble Telescope - observatory equipped for final round of discoveries HOUSTON, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coalition for Space Exploration, the leading collaboration of space industry businesses and advocacy groups, announced today the release of a statement by board member Steve Hawley, a former astronaut on five space shuttle missions, two involving the deployment and servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060925/DAM045LOGO) In recent editorials to newspapers, Hawley expressed his enthusiasm regarding the culmination of NASA's final refurbishing mission to the Hubble telescope, noting all that this observatory has told us about the history and construct of the cosmos.

By Tim Carpenter By Tim Carpenter THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL NASA astronaut and program manager Steve Hawley accepted a new mission Wednesday that involves shaping young minds in Kansas rather than testing boundaries in outer space.

By George Diepenbrock, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan. Apr. 12--Retired NASA astronaut Steve Hawley knows the quirks of living several days in space.