Simon Willison’s Weblog

Python in the Scientific World. Python continues to make strides in the scientific world—and the Hubble Space Telescope team have been using it for 10 years!

# 6th November 2009, 11:04 am / astronomy, guido-van-rossum, hubblespacetelescope, python, science, scipy

Preparing to rescue Hubble. The Big Picture has pictures of the preparations for next month’s Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time, including a photo of astronauts practicing underwater.

# 1st September 2008, 1:54 pm / hubblespacetelescope, nasa, photography, space, spaceshuttle, thebigpicture