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In April 1990, NASA launched what it hoped would be the jewel in the crown for astronomy: the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope (lIST). Today, of course, the telescope has earned itself a well-deserved reputation as one of the most successful space-based observatories ever launched. Across more than two decades of operations, its instruments have peered deeper into the cosmos than ever before. It has acquired images of distant galaxies, made breakthroughs in physics and cosmology by accurately determining the Universe’s rate of expansion, detected planets around far-off stars, witnessed the impact of a comet into Jupiter, tracked cloud movements in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune and created the best currently achievable ‘map’ of the surface of Pluto.
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Evans, B. (2015). Preparing for Space Station. In: The Twenty-first Century in Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1307-7_3
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