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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

119: They Shook On It

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The significance of that shake was beyond this world.

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This is the way I heard it.

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Not long after its historic launch in 1990,

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the Hubble Space Telescope began sending back some much-anticipated photos of the cosmos.

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Astronomers were giddy with anticipation.

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They believed a telescope this powerful could look backwards in time.

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Maybe as far back as the big bang itself.

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Unfortunately, the photos that came back were blurry,

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undeniably, inconceivably, and unforgivably blurry.

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NASA was humiliated.

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Congress was furious, and astronomers were deeply disappointed.

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The Hubble had cost taxpayers $1.5 billion.

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And now, thanks to a mirror that had been improperly ground

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during the manufacturing process,

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the most expensive telescope ever made was little more than a piece of junk.

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