The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

Witness History

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History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In 1990, NASA launched the historic mission which put into orbit the Hubble Space Telescope. The orbiting observatory has revolutionized astronomy and allowed us to peer deeper than ever before into the Universe. Alejandra Martins talks to astronaut, Kathryn Sullivan, about the Hubble mission and the telescope's initial teething problems.

PHOTO: The Hubble Space Telescope (NASA)

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1:10.7	And now on the BBC World Service, Witness History with me Alejandro Martins.
1:16.0	Today we go back to April 24, 1990, the launch of the Space Shuttle Mission that put in orbit one of the most remarkable scientific instruments of all time, the Hubble Space Telescope.
1:29.0	T-minous six, five, four, three, 2, 1, and liftoff of the Space Shuttle Discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope,
1:39.4	our window on the universe.
1:41.6	Space Shuttle launches were an amazing experience. You had five
1:45.2	engines running at the same time as you lifted off the pad.
1:48.2	NASA astronaut, Catherine Sullivan, was one of the five crew members of the Discovery Shuttle Mission.
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