Astronauts install advanced camera on Hubble Space Telescope

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has a new, more powerful camera, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was installed March 7 by astronauts Jim Newman and Mike Massimino. During the seven hour, 30-minute spacewalk, Newman and Massimino removed the last of the Hubble's original instruments, the...

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