Hubble Space Telescope: Exploring the Universe
- ISBN-10
- 0766011208
- ISBN-13
- 9780766011205
- Category
- Astronautics
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Enslow Pub Incorporated
- Author
- Michael D. Cole
Description
Details the initiation of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990 and the repair and servicing missions which followed; explains the telescope's role in answering questions about the universe.
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