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Hubble's 15th Birthday

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 25, 2005 @02:07AM from the happy-birthday-now-die dept.

BlakeCaldwell writes "Wired is reporting the 15th birthday of the Hubble telescope. FTA: "Fifteen years ago Monday, at 12:38 p.m. Pacific Time, astronaut Steven Hawley directed the space shuttle's robotic arm to release the Hubble Space Telescope 381 miles above the Earth, launching an era of unprecedented scientific discoveries. Since that day in 1990, the bus-sized telescope has taken more than 700,000 photos of planets, stars and other celestial bodies.""

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Re:Happy birthday by janek78 · 2005-04-25 02:32 · Score: 0, Redundant

Damn. I'm sorry for the typos. I wasn't going for a FP, it's that I am just going home from work, already half dressed, with my finger on the switch-off button (or the Start button, anyway:)