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History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
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This photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) flight article assembly with multilayer insulation, high gain anterna, and solar arrays in a clean room of the Lockheed Missile and Space Company. The HST is the first of NASA's great observatories and the most complex and sensitive optical telescope ever made. The purpose of the HST is to study the cosmos from a low-Earth orbit by placing the telescope in space, enabling astronomers to collect data that is free of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Credit lineHistory of Hubble Space Telescope (HST). NASA/MSFC, 1986-01-01. Public domain. ID: 8663388.
