Astronomers will get another six to seven years out of their prized asset, the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA officials announced Tuesday.

Hubble Servicing Mission 4 is tentatively on the books for early 2008, when astronauts will deliver two additional instruments and replace aging batteries, gyroscopes and other electronics to keep the telescope in orbit through 2013.

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