The Hubble Space Telescope was introduced by the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Avoiding distortions of the atmosphere, Hubble has an unblocked view peering at planets, galaxies, and stars, some more than 13.4 billion light-years away. Credit: NASA
Hubbles launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most substantial advance in astronomy given that Galileos telescope. Thanks to 5 maintenance missions and more than 30 years of operation, our view of deep space and our location within it has never been the exact same.
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CARL SAGAN “Space Telescope is a sort of grand intellectual experience, for all of us, which will cast light not simply on the universes but also on ourselves.”
Exploration is hardwired into our brains.
And when we see the horizon, we wish to know whats beyond it. We wish to break the barriers, we wish to make the unknown recognized, since our curious nature moves us forward.
Searching for beyond the moon and the stars, past our own Milky Way Galaxy, and deep into the corners of our universe.
Generations prior to our own might just question what we may see veiled above our dirty atmosphere.
They drafted plans, set out the structure that would reveal the realities concealed in the area around us when believed to just be science fiction.
STORY MUSGRAVE: “Were gon na have to move out on the EVA.”
And in the face of difficulty and obstacles …
DOUGLAS BROOME: “Theres a considerable spherical aberration.”
DR. JOHN CAMPBELL: “The 4th of six gyros that are onboard Hubble, failed.”
SM3B ASTRONAUT: “Monitoring Johns fit and theres a big little bit of thin down here.”
They kept fighting and now we continue– unrelenting.
We want to keep pushing the limits of the unattainable.
And with every discovery, every encounter with the heavens, we start to scratch the surface of what it implies to really be human.
We keep exploring to understand what is outside of our galaxy, however also what is within every one of us.
And we will not stop, we wont be pleased with what-ifs, or possibilities, due to the fact that we have been offered a taste too sweet to neglect.
Comprehending at the stars within an arms reach, and mapping the area balancing between.
Observing the nature of the uncommon, diving deep into the fabric of our universe.
Being witnesses to gloriously painted galaxies, and the amazing birth of new stars.
Now, all within the possible, the conceivable, and the credible.
And still, with that, a more wonderful dawn awaits, pressing back the frontiers of our checked out space.
Our mission is not to supplement our present ideas of deep space we live in, but rather to reveal new phenomena not yet envisioned.