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After 27 Years in Service, Hubble’s Telescope and Camera are a Mystery to Most
When NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle Discovery, it was a different world. George Bush (the first one) was president, gas was only $1.16 per gallon, and cell phones looked more like purses with a corded phone attached. It's hard to believe that the technology used to build Hubble back then has been so capable as to last all these years, capturing incredible images along the way (like Galaxy M106 shown above) and exploring areas of space never before seen.
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