Hubble Archive - Pre-Launch

This is a recorded interview from Voice of America. In this program, Dr. Fred Whipple discusses sending a telescope above the earth's atmosphere to transcend the atmosphere's obscuring of the view of space. He talks about plans for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO,) which was a precursor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
National Archive webpage: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/105636
SVS webpage: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13059
National Archives Identifier: 105636
Local Identifier: 306.10-23
Creator: U.S. Information Agency
From: Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency, 1900-2003
This item was broadcast 07/10/1959
Production Series: New Horizons in Science
Discusses the history of telescopes, why we're putting one in space, the basics of astronomy, and how the [Hubble] Space Telescope will work.
Interviews with Dr. C. R. O'Dell, Space Telescope Project Scientist; Professor James Westphal, California Institute of Technology; Dr. Carl Sagan, Astronomer
National Archives webpage: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77180613
National Archives Identifier: 77180613
Local Identifier: 517-BBG-29508
Creator: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center
From: Record Group 517: Records of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
This item was produced in 1981
Production Series: NASA at Work. "Space Telescope and Spacelab"
News story, interview, and b-roll for the [Hubble] Space Telescope. Interview with Riccardo Giacconi, the first director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
National Archives webpage: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/58585
National Archives Identifier: 58585
Local Identifier: 306-TVSF-4
Creator: International Communication Agency
From: Video Recordings from the "TV Satellite File" Program Series, Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency
This item was produced in 1983
G89-002 Hubble BDM Production
April 10, 1989
Created by BDM International, Inc. for NASA Headquarters
Animation and Special Effects by BDM International, Inc.; Interface Video Systems, Inc.; and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Original Music by Premier Recording/DCA Music, Inc.
"This Presentation is dedicated to all those who worked to create the Hubble Space Telescope, especially Dr. Lyman Spitzer."
08:39 - Space Telescope project engineer Jean Olivier
09:15 - Space Telescope principal investigator Professor James Westphal
13:24 - Space Telescope program scientist Dr. Ed Weiler
17:44 - Space Telescope scientist Dr. Margaret Burbidge
22:36 - Space Telescope scientist Dr. Brad Smith
Science World episode 167 from 1990
National Archives webpage: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77179472
National Archives identifier: 77179472
Local Identifier: 517-BBG-37120
Creator: Broadcasting Board of Governors. International Broadcasting Bureau.
From: Record Group 517: Records of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
Episode 167 contains: Hubble Space Telescope, little known syndrome, and striper.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Katrina Jackson (USRA)