The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit on April 24, 1990.
Hubble was funded in the 1970s with a proposed launch in 1983, but technical and budget problems delayed the launch for seven years.
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The Hubble Space Telescope was created by NASA with contributions from the European Space Agency. It was launched into space in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. The telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble.
No. The Hubble Space Telescope was built on Earth and launched into space. It is about the size of a bus.
The Hubble Space Telescope was built at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. It was then transported to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch into orbit.
The first space telescope built by NASA is called the Hubble Space Telescope. It was launched into orbit in 1990 and has provided groundbreaking images and data about the universe since then.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to replace the Hubble Space Telescope and is scheduled to launch in 2021. The JWST will be the most powerful space telescope ever built and will study the universe in infrared wavelengths to observe objects that are difficult to see with other telescopes.