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Astronomy and space

Hubble at 30: how NASA’s telescope went from ‘techno-turkey’ to iconic observatory

22 Apr 2020
The Hubble Space Telescope
Iconic: the Hubble Space Telescope as seen in orbit by astronauts on board space shuttle Discovery during the second servicing mission in 1997. (Courtesy: NASA)
Launched on 24 April 1990, stowed in the payload bay of the space shuttle Discovery, the $1.5bn Hubb

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Keith Cooper is a freelance science journalist and editor
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