Revised: Sept. 2007

For centuries, astronomers were resigned to the fact that the very air that gave them life was a major obstacle to their work. Earth's atmosphere blocks all but a fraction of the frequencies of light from reaching the Earth's surface, and air turbulence, pollution, and humidity blur the rest. This attitude of acceptance changed in the Roaring Twenties, when early space advocates pointed out that a telescope mounted on a space station would be untrammeled by the air. Their dreams and plans came to fruition as the Hubble Space Telescope, which began operations in the spring of 1990. This pathfinder covers the story of the Hubble Space Telescope and the plans for NASA's next large space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Books

Chaisson, Eric. The Hubble Wars: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics in the Two Billion Dollar Struggle Over the Hubble Space Telescope. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994.

QB500.268 .C48 1994 BOOKSTACKS

 

Fischer, Daniel, and Hilmar Dürbeck. Hubble Revisited: New Images From the Discovery Machine. New York, NY: Copernicus, 1998.

QB500.268 .F48 1998 BOOKSTACKS

 

Garvin, James B. Using HST to Observe the Moon for Exploration: Presentation to Science Mission Assoc. Administrator A.V. Diaz. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005.

QB500.268 .G37 M66 2005 BOOKSTACKS

 

Gribbin, John R., and Simon Goodwin. Origins: Our Place in Hubble's Universe. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1998.

QB44.2 .G758 1998 BOOKSTACKS

 

Grice, Noreen. Touch the Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronomy. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2002.

QB68 .G75 2002 BOOKSTACKS

 

HST-JWST Transition Plan Review Panel. Report of the HST-JWST Transition Panel: Executive Summary. Washington, DC: The Panel, 2003.

QB500.268 .R47 2003 BOOKSTACKS

 

Lenehan, Anne E. Story: The Way of Water. Hornsby Westfield NSW, Australia: Communications Agency, 2004.

TL789.85 .M87 L36 2004 BOOKSTACKS

 

Leverington, David. New Cosmic Horizons: Space Astronomy from the V2 to the Hubble Space Telescope. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

QB136 .L48 2000 BOOKSTACKS

 

National Research Council. Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope. Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Letter Report. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2004.

QB500.268 .C66 2004 BOOKSTACKS

 

Naeye, Robert. Through the Eyes of Hubble: The Birth, Life, and Violent Death of Stars. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Pub., 1998.

QB806 .N34 1998 BOOKSTACKS

 

Petersen, Carolyn Collins. Hubble Vision: Further Adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

QB500.268 .P38 1998 BOOKSTACKS

 

Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium. (2000: Baltimore, MD). A Decade of Hubble Space Telescope Science: Proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 11-14, 2000.. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

QB500.268 .S64 2000 BOOKSTACKS

 

Stockman, Hervey S. The Next Generation Space Telescope: Visiting a Time When Galaxies Were Young. Washington, DC: The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., 1997.

QB500.268 .N497 1997 BOOKSTACKS

 

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Options for Hubble Science: Hearing Before the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, February 2, 2005. Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2005.

KF27 .S32 H83 2005 BOOKSTACKS

 

United States. Government Accountability Office. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: Knowledge-based Acquisition Approach Key to Addressing Program Challenges. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2006.

TL521.3 .W43 2006 PPM-STACKS

 

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Office of Inspector General. Audit Report: Hubble Space Telescope Cost Saving Initiatives. Washington, DC: The Office, 1999.

TL521.3 .A93 H83 1999 BOOKSTACKS

 

Voit, Mark. Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams in association with the Smithsonian Institution and the Space Telescope Science Institute, 2000.

QB500.25 .V65 2000 BOOKSTACKS

 

Whitfield, Steve. Hubble Space Telescope. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2006.

QB500.268 .W45 2006 BOOKSTACKS

Multimedia

Internet Resources

Dunbar, Brian. Hubble Space Telescope. 11 Sept. 2007 [13 Sept. 2007].

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html

 

European Space Agency. The European Homepage For The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. 6 Sept. 2007 [13 Sept. 2007].

http://www.spacetelescope.org/index.html

 

Garber, Steven. A Brief History of the Hubble Space Telescope. 17 July 2007 [21 Sept. 2007].

http://history.nasa.gov/hubble/index.html

 

Gardner, Jonathan P. James Webb Space Telescope. 11 Sept. 2007 [13 Sept. 2007].

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

 

Niedner, Malcolm. Hubble Program. 12 Sept. 2007 [13 Sept. 2007].

http://hubble.nasa.gov/

 

Space Telescope Science Institute. 2007 [13 Sept. 2007].

http://www.stsci.edu/institute/

 

__________. Hubble Heritage Project Information Center. 2007 [13 Sept. 2007].

http://heritage.stsci.edu/

 

__________. James Webb Space Telescope. 2007 [14 Sept. 2007].

http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/

 

__________. Office of Public Outreach. HubbleSite. Sept. 2007 [13 Sept. 2007].

http://hubblesite.org/