Why Hubble Broke and How It Was Fixed

Posted by samzenpus on Friday March 30, 2012 @12:27AM from the still-under-warranty dept.

angry tapir writes "I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Charles (Charlie) Pellerin, who was NASA's director of astrophysics when the Hubble Space Telescope launched with its seemingly fatally flawed optical system. Pellerin went on to head up the servicing mission that finally fixed the telescope and for that was awarded NASA's highest honor, a Distinguished Service Medal. Since Hubble he has done a lot of thinking about the problems that led up to the error and how organizations can best avoid making similar mistakes."

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Re:Interesting read by jo_ham · 2012-03-30 01:25 · Score: 1, Troll

I would also like to know the juicy details behind the Mars Climate Orbiter not orbiting, but amm.. slamming into Mars.
Well, that one's easy. Failure by one unnamed country to use units that aren't based on the length of the Pharaoh's arm or how fast a horse with 2 bushels of corn can run on a slope that has a variable gradient, but it's close to the palace so it will do.