... to reach a record-setting altitude for the Shuttle of 380 miles. A problem encountered during the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope saw McCandless and a crewmate suited up in the airlock ready for an emergency spacewalk but the problem was...
... provide unparalleled resolution, with images more than 12 times sharper than those from the Hubble Space Telescope. The siting of the telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, has proved controversial and construction has been delayed by protestors. One way...
... the same sort of comments when photography was invented, when digital art became available, when the Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first amazing images of distant stars and nebulae. . . But let’s take a look at the...
... erupting at the 7 o’clock position off the limb of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as the moon passed in front of Jupiter. NASA/ESA/W Sparks Water vapour...
The old adage “you can’t judge a book by its cover” rings true for this volume on the Hubble Space Telescope: its size, weight and cover design suggest a university text replete with charts and equations, but ...
... interview for NASA’s astronaut corps, a ninety minute grilling from “fourteen experienced space professionals” that put the 26-year-old on the road to a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) repair mission. That’s not where most job interviews lead, but...