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13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble
Trouble with Hubble: 2. The eye opens
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High above the Earth, the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery race against the clock to lift the Hubble Space Telescope from its storage bay and give it a new home in orbit. They have just eight hours to release the telescope and deploy its solar panels, giving Hubble the power it needs to begin its mission. If they fail, Hubble will be left drifting in space, a useless, $1.6 billion telescope, another devastating new setback for Nasa. Featuring interviews with astronauts Kathy Sullivan and Steve Hawley. Episode image: The Hubble Space Telescope being deployed on April 25, 1990. Credit: Nasa Archive: Mission audio and oral histories, Nasa History Office Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian…