35 years of the Hubble Space Telescope
Decades of toil and trouble—and beautiful pictures of the deep
The Hubble Space Telescope got off to a rough start. When it launched in 1990, expectations were high, but a tiny mirror flaw caused the images it captured to be blurry. Dave Barry called it the "Hubble Giant Orbiting Space Paperweight."
Despite capturing images better than ground-based telescopes, Hubble remained a $2 billion punchl…