Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985s%26t....69..300h&link_type=abstract
Sky and Telescope (ISSN 0037-6604), vol. 69, April 1985, p. 300-305.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Government Procurement, Hubble Space Telescope, Nasa Programs, Spaceborne Astronomy, Contracts, Design, Government/Industry Relations, Histories
Scientific paper
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project was initiated near the end of the Apollo program and immediately encountered fiscal contraints. Planned as a long-term facility, the HST had to be continually justified to the public, astronomers and Congress from 1973 onward. Budgetary restraints caused design reductions which for a while threatened the practicality of the HST and changed it from a pressurized, manned unit to an automatic mode, teleoperated, intermittently visited spacecraft. It is noted that numerous exaggerations were made of both the power of the HST for scientific research and the total support of the astronomical community during promotion of the HST program, although the HST is the most powerful visual wavelength telescope ever to be built due to its unique operating environment. NASA's consistent and steadily more detailed definitions of the design features and missions of the HST proved to be a decisive factor in repeated requests for information by funding committees who were deliberating in the presence of severe fiscal difficulties.
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