Documenting the people and tools behind a NASA human spaceflight mission

Ars talked with Michael Soluri and Eric Boehm at the Hubble@25 exhibit at the Intrepid Museum in NYC. Produced and edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)

NEW YORK—Michael Soluri is a New York-based photographer with the jealousy-inducing privilege of photographing a unique portion of space exploration: behind the scenes of NASA’s STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. He spent four years photographing the crew and support personnel, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Houston to the Atlantis shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center.

Launched in January of 1990, the Hubble was repaired five times by Shuttle missions, but the fifth mission was "really a spectacular mission," according to Eric Boehm, aviation curator of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. Along with the first mission to repair Hubble's optics, SM4 was the most important mission to keep the Hubble operational, replacing and upgrading the main data unit, batteries, and camera.

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