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Not yet imagined : a study of Hubble Space Telescope operations

Christopher Gainor, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA SP | 2020

Not Yet Imagined documents the history of HST from its launch through its first 30 years of operation in space. It focuses on the interactions among the general public, astronomers, engineers, government officials, and members of Congress during[...]

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Not yet imagined : a study of Hubble space telescope operations /

Chris Gainor, Author | [S.l.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Program Office | NASA History Series | 2020

"Dr. Christopher Gainor's Not Yet Imagined documents the history of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) from launch in 1990 through 2019. This is considered a follow-on book to Robert W. Smith's The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Tec[...]

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Enhancing Hubble's vision

David J. Shayler, Author ; David M. Harland, Author | Cham : Springer, Published in association with Praxis Publishing | 2016

After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A dramatic mission in 1993 installed corrective [...]

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Hubble's legacy : reflections by those who dreamed it, built it, and observed the universe with it /

Roger D. Launius, Editor ; David H. DeVorkin, Editor | [S.l.] : Smithsonian Institution Press | A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge | 2014

The development and operation of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have resulted in many rich legacies, most particularly in science and technology - but in culture as well. This book, which includes contributions from historians of science, key[...]

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Hubble : imaging space and time

David H. DeVorkin ; Robert W. Smith | [S.l.] : National Geographic Society | 2008

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The universe in a mirror : the saga of the Hubble Telescope and the visionaries who built it

Robert Zimmerman | [S.l.] : Princeton University Press | 2008

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Hubble, 15 years of discovery

R.A.E. Fosbury ; European Space Agency ; NASA | [S.l.] : European Space Agency | 2005

The Hubble story / Hubble close up / planetary tales / the lives of stars / cosmic collisions / monsters in space / gravitational illusions / birth and death of the universe / looking to the end of time / lots of bonus material.

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Hubble space telescope : 10 years that changed your vision

Bruce Battrick, Editor ; European Space Agency, Editor | [S.l.] : European Space Agency | ESA BR | 2000

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The Hubble wars : astrophysics meets astropolitics in the two-billion-dollar struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope

Eric J. Chaisson | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press | 1998

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