Seattleites...In...Space!

At 2:01 EST / 11:01 PST today, you can watch West Seattle H.S. and UW alum, Gregory C. Johnson and six other astronauts of mission STS-125 blast off into outer space. Up, up and away! Johnson will be piloting the space shuttle Atlantis throughout its 11-day service mission to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.The big ol' telescope--sent up into space in 1990--needs some tender loving care since its last fix seven years ago. The crew of STS-125 have scheduled five spacewalks to fix the snafus and update camera technology that's expected to last until 2014. Godspeed.