During their rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Astronaut Repair and Wrecking Crew will be decommissioning HST's longest serving instrument -- the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, known as "wiff-pick-too". NASA has been, correctly, describing WFPC2 as "The Camera the Saved Hubble" (see this video for a nice history). They've also been touting the last "pretty picture" taken by WFPC2 -- a rather nifty planetary nebula However, while K4-55 may be the last officially pretty picture, I'm absurdly stoked that the very last picture will be one taken by a program that my team and I are running. I knew there was a good chance, based upon a schedule we got a week and a half ago, but I wasn't sure exactly when they'd safe the telescope.
But, sure enough, we snagged the "last ever" spot (as Steinn deduced before I was planning on outing myself)! The last ...
