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 ...

NASA astronaut and University of Chicago alumnus John Grunsfeld, SM'84, PhD'88, photographed a vintage Edwin Hubble basketball Tuesday on the space shuttle Atlantis, with the Hubble Space Telescope ...

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 ...

Edwin Hubble's measurements of the distances ... 1993: The shuttle Endeavor goes into orbit and uses a robotic arm to capture Hubble. Astronauts then use a phone-booth-size device called the ...

(It was named after famous astronomer Edwin Hubble in 1983.) The Hubble Space Telescope reached space with a flawed mirror and initially returned blurry images of the cosmos. But astronauts fixed ...

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 ...

That work was done in the 1920s by Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer for whom the telescope is named. This stunning image shows another part of the Tarantula Nebula, where clouds of colorful ...