The final episode tonight of this excellent documentary series.
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Episode 6: Home in Space
Billions of dollars over budget and 10 years behind schedule, NASA launches the Hubble Space Telescope aboard the space shuttle Discovery. One of the most complex instruments ever built, and the latest in an illustrious line of unmanned space missions, Hubble is expected to transform our understanding of the universe. But nothing happens and NASA has a serious problem. It is discovered that human error is to blame for a defective main mirror on the orbiting telescope. Hubble, our all-seeing eye into deep space, is short sighted. NASA decides to send the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour to fix the problem. The mission requires months of intense training for the longest, most dangerous and most complex series of space walks of all time. It is NASA's greatest and most high-profile mission since the Apollo era.
The mission manages to recapture the public's imagination, engaging people in space heroics like nothing since the Moon landings of the Apollo era. Our natural desire to explore and discover is back, and NASA plans to send men back to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
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