April 25 in American History
The space shuttle Discovery released the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, giving humanity its clearest window ever onto the universe. Despite a flawed mirror that astronauts later fixed in orbit, Hubble went on to transform astronomy and beam back images of unimaginable beauty — the deep universe, made visible to everyone.
In 1990: the Hubble Space Telescope is deployed. The space shuttle Discovery released the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, giving humanity its clearest window ever onto the universe.
The space shuttle Discovery released the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, giving humanity its clearest window ever onto the universe. Despite a flawed mirror that astronauts later fixed in orbit, Hubble went on to transform astronomy and beam back images of unimaginable beauty — the deep universe, made visible to everyone.
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