Modern Era · North America · Science
1990
Hubble Space Telescope launched
April 24, 1990
The shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, where astronomers expected to finally see the universe without atmospheric blur. To their horror the mirror was ground slightly wrong and pictures were fuzzy. Three years later astronauts flew up and fixed it. The deepest images of the universe ever made began to arrive.
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Also in 1990 (5 other events on record)
- Mandela walks free · Africa · Politics
- German reunification · Europe · Politics
- Iraq invades Kuwait · Middle East · War
- Lithuania declares independence · Europe · Politics
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