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Offline sam

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Hubble's 20 Years: Time for 20/20 Vision
« on: April 16, 2010, 00:47 »
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"And we have liftoff, liftoff of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, on an ambitious mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope"


http://www.universetoday.com/2010/04/15/hubbles-20-years-time-for-2020-vision/
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Re: Hubble's 20 Years: Time for 20/20 Vision
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2010, 09:43 »
Gosh, that takes me back a bit!  I'd forgotten all about COSTAR. And that wonderful galaxy picture transformation!  Memory lane.   8-)
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Re: Hubble's 20 Years: Time for 20/20 Vision
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2010, 14:27 »
haha.

I remember doing a ray tracing lab about this as an undergraduate probably well over a decade after the fix.
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