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This is your portal to the vastness of the universe... The Space Shuttle Discovery was the vehicle that carried out the launch of Hubble in April of 1990. The moment it was sent into orbit over 500 kilometers above the surface of the Earth marked the beginning of one of humanity's most ambitious goals: to place a telescope into space, far above the obscuring effects of the atmosphere, in order to obtain the clearest view of the universe that we could possibly hope to see. However, in the weeks and months that followed, it became abundantly evident that the dream had turned into a horror, as it was discovered that Hubble's mirror had a defect. It took three years of suffering and an enormous amount of human determination to finally mount a rescue operation and correct the fault. The findings were nothing short of astounding and provided us with a more comprehensive picture of the universe than we've ever had before. This is the narrative of the men and women who conceived of, built, maintained, and operated Hubble, the most renowned scientific instrument in the annals of human history.