The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.

NASA's daring Swift Boost mission launches June 27 to save the nearly 22-year-old Swift observatory , which is being dragged out of space by Earth's atmosphere.

A mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Swift observatory is poised for launch June 30.

And the Hubble Space Telescope could be next