Hubble: Not Yet Imagined
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- Grace Weikert
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Hubble's launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope. Thanks to five servicing missions and more than 30 years of operation, our view of the universe and our place within it has never been the same.
For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.
Music & Sound
“The Hope That Remains” by Frederik Wiedmann [BMI] via Killer Tracks [BMI] and Universal Production Music.
Soundbite of Carl Sagan
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center’s
Space Telescope: An Observatory in Space
ESA Credit
2.5D Edwin Hubble
Hubblecast 89 Edwin Hubble
2.5D Nancy Grace Roman
Hubblecast 113 Nancy Roman — The mother of Hubble
Flythrough #1 FROM Hubblecast 104 Illustrating Hubble’s discoveries
Flythrough #2 FROM Hubblecast 128 30 Years of Science with the Hubble Space
Telescope
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. However, please credit individual items as indicated above.
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Producer
- Grace Weikert (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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Support
- Paul Morris (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Missions
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Hubble’s Servicing Mission 3B
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Hubble’s Servicing Mission 2
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ID: 13774 Produced Video
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ID: 14299 Produced Video
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