Most people know University of Chicago alumnus Edwin Hubble (S.B.,1910, Ph.D.,1917 ... Now another Chicago alumnus, astronaut John Grunsfeld (S.M.,'84, Ph.D.,'88) will fly into orbit a century-old ...

That was the beginning of the real troubles for Hubble, named after famed 20th-century astronomer Edwin Hubble ... was rewarded at last in 1993, when astronauts fitted Hubble with the equivalent ...

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It was almost another half a decade after that before the telescope received its official name — after famed American astronomer Edwin ... STS-61 astronauts aboard Endeavor during Hubble's ...

The Hubble telescope was designed to be the first space-based observatory, which could be serviced and upgraded while it remained in orbit. It was named after Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who ...

Thirty years ago, an 11-day space shuttle mission involving seven veteran astronauts performed the first servicing mission to correct the Hubble Space Telescope's blurred vision. The unprecedented ...