Why did Edwin hubble make a space telescope?

Answer 1

The Hubble Space Telescope was flown into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-31, on April 24, 1990. On the subsequent servicing mission, in December, 1993, flaws in the original optics were corrected.

Answer 2

Edwin Hubble did not make a space telescope. He was a renowned astronomer known for his work in establishing the concept of an expanding universe. The Hubble Space Telescope, named in his honor, was launched by NASA in 1990 to conduct observations in space and has provided valuable insights into our cosmos.

Answer 3

The HST was built by the United States space agency NASA, with contributions from the European Space Agency , and is operated by the Space Telescope Science Institute. Edwin Hubble was just named after the space telescope as he made the discovery of how the universe is expanding.

Answer 4

I can not locate an original date, but the original launch was scheduled for October 1986. One can assume it was finished prior to that, but the disaster of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger may have led to some redesigns.

Regardless, construction started in 1978, and the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990.

Answer 5

The Hubble telescope traveled to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, on mission STS-31. There were four subsequent shuttle servicing missions, the last by STS-125 on May 13-19, 2009.

Answer 6

The Hubble Telescope was named after Edwin Powell Hubble who was an astronomer that confirmed that there were galaxies other than our own Milky Way; the discoveries of other galaxies have been repeatedly confirmed by the observations of the Hubble Telescope.

Answer 7

Noted astronomer Edwin Hubble did not invent, design, or build, the Hubble Space Telescope. He wasn't even the first to envision a space-based orbital telescope, and he had died years before the initial planning stages of HST began in the early 60's.

It is NASA's custom to honor significant contributors to the space program, astronomy, astrophysics, and the other space sciences, by naming spacecraft (orbital satellites or deep space probes) after them.

As an example, the follow-up space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was originally named the Next Generation Space Telescope (yes, there are a lot of Trekkies in NASA), at the beginning of the program. James Webb was NASA's second administrator, and led the agency through its key years during the Mercury and Gemini missions, and the early stages of the Apollo program. It was later renamed in Webb's honor.

In Hubble's case, it was his key discovery using Doppler (red shift) analysis that proved that the universe is expanding, and that galaxies other than our own Milky Way galaxy exist, that led to HST being named for him.

He didn't.

NASA built the Space Telescope, and named it in honor of Hubble long after his death. Hubble died in 1953, long before the first satellite orbited the Earth.

Answer 8

Edwin Hubble didn't create the telescope. It is simply named after him, as he was a great astronomer.

Answer 9

The Hubble Space Telescope was built to see more, see farther, see deeper in the universe.

Answer 10

== The Hubble Space Telescope what carried into space by the Space Shuttle Discovery.