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Hubble's Cosmic Journey

This is your portal to the cosmos. On board the Space Shuttle Discovery, Hubble was launched in April 1990. Its launching into orbit over 500km above the Earth marked the birth of one of humanity's biggest dreams: to place a telescope into space, high above the atmosphere, to acquire the finest view of the cosmos. But once Hubble's mirror was discovered to have a fault in the months that followed, it became evident that the dream had changed into a horror. A rescue mission to correct the problem was mounted after three years of agony and tremendous human resolve. The outcomes were astounding and gave us the most complete understanding of the cosmos ever. The men and women who designed, created, maintained, and operated Hubble—the most renowned scientific equipment in history—are the subject of this narrative.

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