Hubble Space Telescope: Pocket Space Guide

The dazzling vistas that the Hubble Space Telescope has recorded since its launch in 1990 are presented in this book, along with explanations of what exactly Hubble has seen during it's years in orbit. This Pocket Space Guide, #7 in the series, tells the complete Hubble story—from the program's shaky start to the extraordinary success that followed, inspiring bigger and better successors in the years to follow. Line drawings of its hardware offer a supplementary understanding of Hubble's technological development.

This information-packed pocket reference tells the complete story of NASA's Hubble space telescope program, including illustrations of the dazzling vistas recorded by the telescope and concise and informative explanations of the telescope's extraordinary discoveries.