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And it was just ever so slightly too flat at the outer edge. is this a sign of death knell for nasa? it's lost its way in the woods. used to be able to put people on the moon and now can't even build a telescope. although the folks that built the mirror had messed up, they had messed up very precisely. and therefore, it was possible to calculate very precisely the difference between the shape it should have had and the shape it did have. hubble was designed from the beginning to be able to take out one scientific instrument, put a new one in. so they used the precision that had been built into...

We never knew before. of how stars form, of how big gas clouds are nurseries of stars. i imagine astronomers have been dreaming since they ever first looked at the stars about some way to get rid of all these pesky clouds and the turbulent atmosphere. so that's really what hubble is about. so if you could put a really high performing telescope above all of that, you'd really open great doors to astronomy. so we launched on april 24th and with a few hiccups and bumps, got hubble deployed on day two of the mission and then as planned, returned to earth on the fifth day. engines start. t—minus ...

Episode we look back at five incredible stories from space. coming up, we hearfrom the first afghan cosmonaut in space, whose mission nearly ended in tragedy. plus the women aqua not who spent two weeks living underwater in the atlantic ocean. the handshake in space which became a symbol of peace between russia and america during the cold war, and the dog who was sent into space. but first, in 1990, scientists developed a telescope which would become a household name and would eventually reveal parts of the universe that had never been seen before. nasa's scientist, katherine sullivan, helped ...

It's really shaking. hubble was bolted into the cargo bay of the shuttle and attached with an electrical connector, and the shuttle had a 50 foot long robotic arm that could grab on to the telescope at one particular specially designed point. mission specialist steve hawley continuing to take the... everyone on our crew was really excited about when we might get to see the first light images from hubble. the time dragged on. and then of course, the next thing we knew, there was a very ashen faced press conference with very senior nasa scientific officials. come before the public to have to con...