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The Hubble wars : astrophysics meets astropolitics in the two-billion-dollar struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope

Eric Chaisson, the senior scientist on the HST project, tells the inside story of the much heralded mission to fix the telescope. Drawing on his journals, Chaisson recreates the day-to-day struggles of those involved in the project
Print Book, English, ©1998
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©1998
Observations
xi, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
9780674412552, 0674412559
60184117
Prologue - launch of space telescope; deployment and early operations; jitters, in space and on the ground; "Hubble"'s first light; Babel revisited; rocky road to the imaging campaign; inaugral science observations; more early science results; epilogue - miracle on orbit; afterword - the "Fix".
With a new pref. by the author. Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 1994