On this day in 1990 the space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral carrying the Hubble Space Telescope.
The telescope, the size of a railway carriage, took 20 years to build, at a cost of $1.55 billion. Its been well worth it as it still making discoveries 23 years later and has transformed the way scientists look at the universe.
It has its own website, click on the link to see some stunning images of the cosmos.
http://hubblesite.org/
The telescope, the size of a railway carriage, took 20 years to build, at a cost of $1.55 billion. Its been well worth it as it still making discoveries 23 years later and has transformed the way scientists look at the universe.
It has its own website, click on the link to see some stunning images of the cosmos.
http://hubblesite.org/
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