The Hubble Space Telescope By manning16 Apr 24, 1990 The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space and was launced by the Space Shuttle Discovery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope May 20, 1990 The first image from the Hubble Telescope was the Star Cluster NGC 3532 http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/quick_facts.php Jun 25, 1990 Problems with the mirrors on the Hubble Teleschope were discovered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Flawed_mirror Dec 2, 1993 The Space Shuttle Endeavour mission was launched to build and fix equipment and mirrors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61 Feb 11, 1997 The second mission to repair the Hubble Telescope fixed and replaced more mirrors and tape recorders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Servicing_Mission_2 Dec 19, 1999 NASA sent the Space Shuttle Discovery quicker than planned to repair the HubbleTelescope because three of the six gyroscopes stopped working. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-103 May 11, 2009 Atlantis Space Shuttle was the last misison sent to repair the telescope. Better cameras were installed and other parts of the telescope were fixed too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-125
