Poetry in Space: Final Pilgrims to the Hubble Space Telescope

[/caption] As today's final spacewalk of the Hubble Servicing Mission begins, it seems very fitting to share a poem written by my friend Stuart Atkinson. Stuart is a poet, a blogger, a member of

Unmanned Spaceflight.com

(which means he is a Photoshopper extraordinaire!) and a passionate promoter of space exploration. Stuart has written many touching poems previously about the Mars rovers, the Phoenix lander, the Kepler mission and many other missions, but this verse about the final human mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is priceless. See below for "The Final Pilgrims" and check out

Stu's website Cumbrian Skies

for more great poetry, images and information.

Thanks, Stu, for sharing your poem with Universe Today!