Precisely because of Hubble's extraordinary contributions in the past and promised contributions in the future, I... believe it is important that the decision to cancel the planned servicing mission to Hubble be reviewed by an independent panel of experts and all options for safely carrying it out be examined.
Quotes about hubble (16 Quotes)
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.
The astronomers credit Hubble's superb vision for finding the disk. Only Hubble has the resolution in blue light to observe this disk, ... It is so small and so distinct from the surrounding red stars that we were able to use it to probe into the very dynamical heart of Andromeda. These observations were taken by the members of our team that built STIS. We designed its visible channel specifically to seize such an opportunity - to measure starlight closer to a black hole than in any other galaxy outside our own.
President Nixon cancelled in 1973 the Hubble Telescope while it was still in the development phase. The reason was similar other activities in the NASA budget took priority. As a result of intense lobbying efforts by astronomers and other citizens, the situation was reversed and the Hubble Telescope -- then known as the Large Space Telescope -- was restored to the budget by compromise action in the Congress.
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
Orion is a bustling cauldron of activity. This new large-scale Hubble image of the region reveals a treasure-house of beauty and astonishing detail for comprehensive scientific study.
Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.
With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique.
It shows what's possible with the combination of a massive ground-based survey and the imaging capability of the Hubble. Our fondest hope is that this is a poster child for why we need something like the Hubble.
The Mars Pathfinder (landing in 1997) caught everyone's attention. Hubble photos have just captured the public imagination and had maybe more magazine covers than even John Glenn.
The Hubble Space Telescope can discriminate very subtle color differences on the surface.
I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
I am confident that Americans of all walks of life will come to the defense of the Hubble and cause the Congress to restore the repair of the telescope to the NASA budget.
If, as our new Hubble images indicate, Pluto has not one, but two or three moons, it will become the first body in the Kuiper Belt known to have more than one satellite.