New Hampshire's Rick Linnehan is among an elite group of Americans ... sent space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven to the Hubble space telescope. It was his third shuttle mission, giving ...

Jim Newman and Rick Linnehan – as he said “from the crew of STS-109, we bid Hubble well on its new journey, with its new tools, to explore the universe.” Grunsfeld, Linnehan, Newman and ...

Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Rick Linnehan successfully replaced the Hubble Space Telescope's Power Control Unit during a nearly seven-hour spacewalk in the early hours of March 6. The Power ...

The Columbia astronauts rendezvoused with the Hubble Space Telescope and hoisted ... a 43-year-old astrophysicist, and Rick Linnehan, a 44-year-old veterinarian, planned to begin the makeover ...

The STS-109 crew of Commander Scott Altman, Pilot Duane Carey along with Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld, Nancy Currie, Rick Linnehan, Jim Newman and Mike Massimino will talk with GSFC ...

Spacewalkers Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman spent seven hours and eight minutes assembling the gigantic robot overnight. It turned into quite a chore when balky bolts refused to release one of ...

BEDFORD (AP) — Astronaut Rick Linnehan will be taking the dreams of a Bedford family into space with him on Tuesday. Alex Higgins, 8, died in 1998 in a backyard accident. But his family has kept ...

The primary objective of this excursion, which is being conducted by Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld and Rick Linnehan, is the installation of an experimental cooling system onto Hubble’s ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. DEERFIELD VALLEY — Dr. Rick Linnehan compares space suits to medieval armor. "You've got a big fish bowl over your head and you're wearing roller ...

Rick Linnehan and John Grunsfeld - returned from an 11-day space mission on March 12 at 3:32 a.m. The mission successfully rejuvenated the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA officials said. During the ...