Synopsis
Launched in 1990 and greatly extended in its scientific powers through new instrumentation installed during four servicing missions with the Space Shuttle, the Hubble, in its eighteen years of operations, has validated Lyman Spitzer Jr.'s (1914-1997) original concept of a diversely instrumented observatory orbiting far above the distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere and returning data of unique scientific value.
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Details
- Running time
- 4 minutes
- Collection
- NASA
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Catch up with ongoing missions