35 years of the Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope got off to a rough start. When it launched in 1990, expectations were high, but a tiny mirror flaw caused the images it captured blurry. Dave Barry called it the 'Hubble Giant Orbiting Space Paperweight.'
Despite capturing images better than ground-based telescopes, Hubble remained a $2 billion punchline until 1993, when the Space Shuttle Endeavour performed a historic repair. — Read the rest
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