Celebrating the most successful telescope ever built, this masterwork reveals the full story of the Hubble, including its recent images of deep space on the eve of its final servicing mission scheduled for late 2008. 125 color photographs.
The exploration of the upper atmosphere was given a jump start in the United States by German V-2 rockets - Hitler's ", vengeance weapon", - captured at the end of World War II. The science performed with these missiles was largely determined by the missile itself, such as learning more about the medium through which a ballistic missile travels. Groups rapidly formed within the military and military-funded university laboratories to bu...
