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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST; also known colloquially as "the Hubble" or just "Hubble") is a space telescope that was carrie into orbit by a Space Shuttle in April 1990. It is named for American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although not the first space telescope, the Hubble is one of the largest and most versatile, and is well known as both a vital research tool and a public relations boon for astronomy. The HST is a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, and is one of NASA's Great Observatories, along with the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

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  • Launched on April 24, 1990, it was the first general-purpose orbiting telescope
  • In an emergency repair mission scheduled for October 1999 NASA will replace all of the gyros in this telescope
  • In 1993 & 1999, like clockwork, NASA sent Swiss Claude Nicollier on missions to repair this, launched in 1990
  • Mission Control played the song "I Can See Clearly Now" for the astronauts who fixed this object
  • Something to reflect on--it runs on batteries, is about the size of a bus & circles the Earth every 97 minutes
  • John Grunsfeld, grandson of a planetarium designer, flew on the 1999 shuttle mission to repair this
  • Device that took the photo seen here:
  • Many beautiful images like the one seen here have been given to us by this famous space telescope
  • (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Johnson Space Center in Houston) Astronauts trained in neutral buoyancy to prepare for a mission to service this object's 94-inch mirrors
  • Johns Hopkins operates this orbiting observatory for NASA
  • On December 10, 1993 astronauts successfully repaired this while in orbit
  • This $1.5 billion dollar telescope, seen here, has opened our Earth-bound eyes to undreamed-of splendors

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